Crossword clues for embow
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embow
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.
Wiktionary
embow
vb. (context obsolete English) To bend like a bow; to curve.
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.