† ˈinbowed, in-bowed, a. Obs.
[f. in adv. + bowed, pa. pple. of bow v.]
Bowed or bent inwards or concavely.
| a 1586 Sidney Arcadia (1622) 92 He met her full..With inbow'd bosom well for her prepared. c 1586 C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxxix. iv, Filling neither reapers hand Nor the binders inbowd lapp. 1658 A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. ii. vii. 68 Neither must the in-bowed scull be opprest with Cataplasmes. Ibid. xxvii. 180 There is a very small difference between a Fracture and an in-bowed bone. |
So † ˈinbowing ppl. a., bending inwards or concavely.
| 1603 Owen Pembrokesh. (1891) 2 Diuerse other Inboweinge places..where the sea occupieth a great Inlett. |