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verbembow (third-person singular simple present embows, present participle embowing, simple past and past participle embowed)
present singular third person embows · participle present embowing · participle past embowed · past embowed
- ambitransitivearchaicTo bend like a bow; to curve.
embowed arches
1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC1 more example
with gilded horns embowd like the moon
1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC
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