embower

== English == === Alternative forms === imbower (archaic) === Etymology === This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Ultimately from Old English būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr, (whence Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)). Equivalent to en- +‎ bower. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛmˈbaʊɚ/ === Verb === embower (third-person singular simple present embowers, present participle embowering, simple past and past participle embowered) (transitive, poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage. (intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower. line 225 (intransitive) To form a bower. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === “embower”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “embower”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes II (D–Hoon), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.