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Form into an arch, old-style
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embow
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Word definitions for embow in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context obsolete English) To bend like a bow; to curve.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embow \Em*bow"\, v. t. To bend like a bow; to curve. ``Embowed arches.'' [Obs. or R.] --Sir W. Scott. With gilded horns embowed like the moon. --Spenser.
Usage examples of embow.
Their live pillars upheaved a thick embowed roof, betwixt whose leaves and blossoms hardly a sunbeam filtered.
At the other end, though partly muffled by a curtain, it was more powerfully illuminated by one of those embowed hall-windows which we read of in old books, and which was provided with a deep and cushioned seat.
It was a wooden figurehead carved in the shape of an embowed, cheerfully grinning dolphin-worn, wormholed, its paint flaking with age.