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Embower

//ɛmˈbaʊɚ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage. poetic, transitive

    "Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d"

  2. 2
    enclose in a bower wordnet
  3. 3
    To lodge or rest in or as in a bower. intransitive

    "But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;"

  4. 4
    To form a bower. intransitive

    "Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr; or scattered sedge Afloat"

Etymology

Ultimately from Old English būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr, (whence Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)). Equivalent to en- + bower.

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