† imbosk, v. Obs.
Also 6 -bosque.
[ad. It. imboscare ‘to enter or goe into a wood, to take couert or shelter as a Deere doeth... Also to lay in ambush’ (Florio), f. im- (im-1) + bosco wood. Cf. emboss v.2]
refl. To hide or conceal oneself.
| 1562 J. Shute Cambine's Turk. Wars ii. 11 Scanderbeg went as secretly as possyble, to imbosque him selfe neare to that place. 1612–20 Shelton Quix. iii. viii. (1675) 46 Sancho..requesting him to depart..and imbosk himself in the mountain. 1657 S. W. Schism Dispach't 221 He cares not..what contradictions he maintains, so he can but imbosk himself handsomely in them. |
b. intr. for refl.
| 1641 Milton Reform. i. Wks. (1847) 10/1 They seek the dark, the bushy, the tangled forest, they would imbosk. |