embowers

Verb

embower (third-person singular simple present embowers, present participle embowering, simple past and past participle embowered)

1. (poetic, transitive) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
   • Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank,
     Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
2. (intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
   • But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
3. (intransitive) To form a bower.
   • Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
     In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades
     High overarch't imbowr; or scattered sedge
     Afloat1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...