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embower
English
Alternative forms
- imbower
Etymology
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Ultimately from Old English b?r, from Proto-Germanic *b?raz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr, (whence Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?ba??/
Verb
embower (third-person singular simple present embowers, present participle embowering, simple past and past participle embowered)
- (transitive, poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
- 1809, Washington Irving, A History of New York …, by Dietrich Knickerbocker
- A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.
- 1852, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott
- And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott
- 1884, Donald Grant Mitchell, Bound Together
- The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn
- 1809, Washington Irving, A History of New York …, by Dietrich Knickerbocker
- (intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil’s Gnat, line 225
- But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil’s Gnat, line 225
- (intransitive) To form a bower.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book I, lines 302-305:
- Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks
- In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades
- High overarched embower; or scattered sedge
- Afloat
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book I, lines 302-305:
Translations
References
- embower in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “embower”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume II (D–Hoon), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
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embowel
English
Etymology
em- +? bowel
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?l
- IPA(key): /?m?ba?.?l/
Verb
embowel (third-person singular simple present embowels, present participle emboweling or embowelling, simple past and past participle emboweled or embowelled)
- (obsolete) To enclose or bury.
- To remove the bowels; disembowel.
Synonyms
- (enclose): enclose, bury, embed, inclose
- (remove the bowels): disembowel, eviscerate
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