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▪ I. † emˈbow, n. Obs. rare—1. [f. next.] The concave surface of an arch, vault, or dome.1548 Hall Chron. (1809) 723 The..Embowes were of very strange worke with leaves, balles and other garnishinges.▪ II. embow, v.1 Obs. exc. arch. (ɛmˈbəʊ) Also 5 enbow, 6– imbow. [f. en- + bow n.1] 1. trans. To be...
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embowed
embowed, ppl. a. (ɛmˈbəʊd) [f. embow v.1] 1. Bent or curved into the form of a bow; convex, bow-like.1578 Lyte Dodoens 707 Long lyke a Peare, with certayne embowed or swelling diuisions. 1591 Spenser Vis. Worlds Vanitie ii. With gilden hornes embowed like the Moone. 1639 Horn & Robotham Gate Lang. U...
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embowing
▪ I. † emˈbowing, vbl. n. Obs. [f. embow v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. embow1; vaulting; arching: in quot. concr. Also attrib.1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xi, The freshe enbowing w{supt} verges right as lynes. 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxiv. 5 By the kervings or imbowings he meeneth the verge f...
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imbower
embower, imbower, v. (ɛm-, ɪmˈbaʊə(r), -ˈbaʊə(r)) Also 7 imbowr(e. [f. en-, in- + bower n.1] 1. trans. To shelter, enclose, seclude as in a bower; also absol.1580 Sidney in Farr S.P. Eliz. (1845) I. 78 Him..Whom Sion holds embowered. c 1630 Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 44 Ah destinies, ...
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embowment
emˈbowment arch. [f. embow v. + -ment.] Vaulting.1626 Bacon Sylva §249 The Roofe all open, not so much as any Embowment neere any of the walls left. 1919 T. Hardy Coll. Poems 54 O for..Light to gaily See thy daily Iris-hued embowment!
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embowered
embowered, ppl. a. (ɛmˈbaʊəd) [f. prec. + -ed1.] a. That is surrounded as with a bower, wreathed with foliage; b. lodged in a bower.1757 Dyer Fleece i. 119 The little smiling cottage warm embow'r'd. 1824 W. Irving T. Trav. I. 317 Seated in the embowered porch of his small parsonage. 1830 Tennyson Re...
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inbow
† inˈbow, v. Obs. [f. in-1 + bow v.1 In Wyclif rendering L. incurvāre, inclīnāre.] 1. trans. To bend into a curved or arched form; to incurve, arch. Cf. bow v. 9, embow v.1 2.1382 Wyclif Isa. lix. 8 The pathis of them inbowid [L. incurvatæ, 1388 bowid] ben to them. 1465 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) ...
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culminate
▪ I. culminate, v. (ˈkʌlmɪneɪt) [f. late L. culmi-nāt-, ppl. stem of culmināre, f. culmen, culmin- (see above); see -ate, and cf. mod.F. culminer.] 1. intr. Astron. Of a heavenly body: To reach its greatest altitude, to be on the meridian.1647 Lilly Chr. Astrol. clvi. 649 If the Luminary culminate. ...
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dingle
▪ I. dingle, n. (ˈdɪŋg(ə)l) [Of uncertain origin. A single example meaning ‘deep hollow, abyss’ is known in 13th c.; otherwise, the word appears to have been only in dialectal use till the 17th c., when it began to appear in literature. In the same sense dimble is known from the 16th c. Dimble and d...
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low
▪ I. low, n.1 (ləʊ) Also 3–5, 9 lowe, 6 looe, 7 loe. Cf. law n.3 [OE. hláw, hlǽw masc., = OS. hlêo (dat. hlêwe) grave-mound, OHG. hlêo (MHG. lê) grave-mound, hill, Goth. hlaiw neut., grave (whence hlaiwasnôs pl., graves):—OTeut. *hlaiwoz-, -iz- neut.:—pre-Teut. *kloiwos-, -es-, f. root *klei- to slo...
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