embow

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From em- +‎ bow.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbəʊ/

Verb

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

(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

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