The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embosom \Em*bos"om\, v. t. [Written also imbosom.]
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To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster.
Glad to embosom his affection.
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To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something.
His house embosomed in the grove.
--Pope.Some tender flower . . . . Embosomed in the greenest glade.
--Keble.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. 1 To draw to or into one's bosom; to treasure. 2 To enclose, surround, or protect. vb. 1 To draw to or into one's bosom; to treasure. 2 To enclose, surround, or protect.
Usage examples of "embosom".
The Cheltenham of Typee is embosomed in the deepest solitude, and but seldom receives a visitor.
Reichenbach fall, and embosomed in the richest of pine woods, while the fine form of the Wellhorn looking down upon it completes the enchanting BOPPLE.
Of the house scarcely a glimpse could be caught till you were well within the gates, so thickly was it embosomed in trees.
The eye could not pierce beyond them, and the imagination was in a manner embosomed in the vale.
Brother Stevens so loved the picturesque--lakes embosomed in hills, and streams stealing through unbroken forests, and all so much the more devotedly, when he had such a companion as Margaret Cooper.
I mention this peaceful spot with all possible laud, for it is in such little retired Dutch valleys, found here and there embosomed in the great State of New York, that population, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant changes in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved.
And, though my knapsack already weighed eighteen pounds, I could not resist the call of a cheap edition of Wordsworth in a drug-store at Warsaw, a charming little town embosomed among hills and orchards, where we arrived, dreamy with country air, at the end of the day.
At the back of the stead was the steep boulderstrewn face of the flat-topped hill that curved round on each side, embosoming a great slope of green, in the lap of which the house was placed.
Cedar Lake may find it an amusement to compare their own feelings with those of one who has lived by the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, by the Nile and the Tiber, by Lake Leman and by one of the fairest sheets of water that our own North America embosoms in its forests.
The inn stands in a CHARMANT spot close to the C^OTE DE LA RIVIE`RE, which, lower down, forms the Reichenbach fall, and embosomed in the richest of pine woods, while the fine form of the Wellhorn looking down upon it completes the enchanting BOPPLE.