embow

English

Etymology

em- +‎ bow

Alternative spellings

imbow

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbəʊ/

Verb

embow (third-person singular simple present embows, present participle embowing, simple past and past participle embowed)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To bend like a bow; to curve.
   • 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:

     embowed arches

   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     with gilded horns embowd like the moon

Derived terms

• embowment

References

• “embow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• bemow