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embosom

embosom, imbosom, v.
  (ɛm-, ɪmˈbʊzəm)
  Also 7 enbosome.
  [f. en-, in- + bosom.]
  1. trans. To take or press to one's bosom; to cherish in one's bosom; to embrace. Also, to implant, plunge (a sting, weapon, etc.) in (another's) bosom (obs.). Chiefly fig. rare in mod. use.

α 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. ii. 25 The handmayd.. glad t' embosome his affection vile. 1610 G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. in Farr S.P. Jas. (1848) 67 Thus sought the dire enchauntresse in his minde Her guilefull bait to have embosomed. c 1630 Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 36/2 Tithon's wife embosom'd by him lies. 1645 Quarles Sol. Recant. vii. 9 Anger rests Embosom'd..in foolish brests. 1729 Savage Wanderer i. 380 Why embosom me a viper's sting? a 1813 A. Wilson Tears of Britain Poet. Wks. 158 Shall..such a monster..By Britons be..embosomed? 1874 Pusey Lent. Serm. 459 All the Father embosometh the Son.


β 1631 Celestina i. 7 Suffering them [Muleteers] to imbosome them between their brests. 1671 J. Flavel Fount. Life ii. 4 They lay as it were imbosomed in one another. 1806 Moore From High Priest of Apollo ii. 40 Might he but pass the hours of shade Imbosomed by his Delphic maid.

  2. transf. a. To enclose, conceal, shelter, in the ‘bosom’. Often pass. to be enclosed, enveloped in, closely surrounded with (woods, foliage, mountains, etc.); poet., to be ‘wrapped’ in (slumber, happiness, beauty, etc.). b. refl. Of a river: To pour itself into the bosom of a larger stream (obs.).

α 1685 H. More Para. Proph. xiii, All sorts of people may safely embosom themselves in her. c 1750 Shenstone Elegies vii. 44 My distant home Which oaks embosom. 1764 Goldsm. Trav. 282 Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. 1773 Wilkes Corr. (1805) IV. 158 The vilages are happily embosomed with trees. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. I. 501 This state [New York] embosoms vast quantities of iron ore. 18.. Campbell On Visiting Scene in Argylsh. i, The wind-shaken weeds that embosom the bower. 1829 Scott Anne of G. iii, One of those spots in which Nature often embosoms her sweetest charms. 1855 Singleton Virgil I. 279 Deep sleep embosometh their jaded limbs. 1876 Green Short Hist. x. §4. 798 What sepulchre embosoms the remains..of so much human excellence and glory? 1879 C. Rossetti Seek & F. 24 The sky..over⁓arching and embosoming not earth and sea only, but clouds and meteors, planets and stars.


β 1665 Manley Grotins' Low-C. Warres 837 The River Vecht..imbosomes it self into the same [the Issell]. 1667 Milton P.L. v. 597 By whom in bliss imbosom'd sat the Son. 1835 Willis Pencillings ii. lx. 167 We walked..to a large old villa, imbosomed in trees. 1839 Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 378 Thy heart imbosomed in all beauteousness.

  Hence emˈbosomed, ppl. a., emˈbosoming vbl. n. and ppl. a.

1622–62 Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1682) 205 Since their embosoming and reconcilement to the Church of Rome. 1626 Sandys Ovid's Metam. x. 205 She..Flusht with imbosomd flames. 1839 Bailey Festus xviii. (1848) 184 The long imbosomed braid. 1859 Farrar J. Home (1874) 9 The hill with its tall spire and embosoming trees. 1873 Browning Red Cott. Nt.-Cap 660 Bosses of shrubs, embosomings of flowers.

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