Crossword clues for embower
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embower \Em*bow"er\, v. t.
To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [Written also
imbower.] [Poetic]
--Milton. -- v. i. To lodge or rest in a
bower. [Poetic] ``In their wide boughs embow'ring. ''
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive poetic English) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage. 2 (context intransitive English) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower. 3 (context intransitive English) To form a bower.
WordNet
v. enclose in a bower [syn: bower]
Usage examples of "embower".
All the way from the plain where I had awoke to the walls of the city stood booths, drinking-places, and gardens divided by labyrinths of canals, and embowered in shrubberies that seemed coming into leaf and flower as we looked, so swift was the process of their growth.
The cottage was nearly embowered in the woods, which were chiefly of chesnut intermixed with some cypress, larch and sycamore.
How vivid the shrubs, that embowered the slopes, with the woods, that stretched amphitheatrically along the mountains!
The little bay in particular, which Jasper used as a harbor, was so embowered with bushes and shut in with islands, that, the sails of the cutter being lowered, her own people on one occasion had searched for hours before they could find the _Scud_, in their return from a short excursion among the adjacent channels in quest of fish.