English
Alternative spellings
imbower
Verb
en-verb
- transitive poetic to enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
#*RQ:Milton Lost 1674, 9 - Her hand he seis'd, and to a shadie bank, / Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr'd
#*1809: w:Washington Irving|Washington Irving, A History of New York ..., by Dietrich Knickerbocker - A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.
#*1852: w:Alfred Tennyson|Alfred Tennyson, s:The Lady of Shalott|The Lady of Shalott - And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott
#*1884: w:Donald Grant Mitchell|Donald Grant Mitchell, Bound Together - The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn
- intransitive To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
#*1591: w:Edmund Spenser|Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, line 225 - But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
- intransitive To form a bower. - w:John Milton|John Milton
References
R:Webster 1913
R:Century 1914
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