embow

British  

/ ɪmˈbəʊ /

verb

1. (tr) to design or create (a structure) in the form of an arch or vault

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Other Word Forms

• embowed adjective
• embowment noun

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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 .

From Time Magazine Archive

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!

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg