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embow

/ ɪ³¾Ëˆ²úəʊ /

verb

  1. tr to design or create (a structure) in the form of an arch or vault
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ±ð³¾Ëˆ²ú´Ç·É±ð»å, adjective
  • ±ð³¾Ëˆ²ú´Ç·É³¾±ð²Ô³Ù, noun
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Embowel, em-bow′el, v.t. properly, to enclose in something else; but also used for disembowel, to remove the entrails from:—pr.p. embow′elling; pa.p. embow′elled.—n.

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Embow, em-bÅ′, v.t. and v.i. to bow or arch.—p.adj.

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Poet Smart's Song was a haunting combination of the lyrical and the intellectual, clothed in words that threw fresh lights and colors upon many a common thing: Where rain in clasping boughs inclos'd, And -vines with oranges dispos'd, Embow'r the social laugh .

Oh! we have often fondly stray'd In Fordoun's green embow'ring glade, And mark'd the moonbeam as it play'd On Luther's bonnie wave, Mary!

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Let fragrant birks in woodbines drest My craggy cliffs adorn; And, for the little songster’s nest, The close embow’ring thorn.

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