embosom (embuzum)

t. [Formerly also imbosom; This gracele e man, for furtherance of his guile, Did court the handmayd of my Lady deare, Who, glad t' embosome his affection vile, Did all she might more pleasing to appeare. Spenser, F. Q., II. iv. 25. 2. To inclose; embrace; encircle. His house embosomed in the grove. Pope, Imit. of Horace, IV. i. 21. The little kingdom of Navarre, embosomed within the Pyrenees. Pre scott , Ferd. and Isa., Int. Safe- embosomed by the night. Browning , Ring and Book, I. 26. embo 1 (em-bos'), v . t . [Formerly also imbo ; early mod. E. also enbo e ; enbo en , en bocen, embo er , enbocer , swell or arise in bunches, embo , bo e , a bo : see bo 1.] 1. To form bo es on; fashion relief or raised work upon; ornament with bo es or raised work; cover or stud with protuberances, as a shield. To enboce thy Iowis [jaws] with mete is nat die we [due]. Babees Book (E. E. T. 8.), p. 28. I le onely now embo my Book with Bra , Dye 't with Vermilion, deck 't with Copera . Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. Dead Corps imbo the Vale with little Hills. Cowley, Davideis, ii. All crowd in heaps, as at a night alarm The bees drive out upon each other's backs, To embo their hives in clusters. Dryden, Don Sebastian. Hammer needs must widen out the round, And file embo it fine with lily-flowers, Ere the stuff grow a ring-thing right to wear. Browning, Ring and Book, I. 7. IMG:content-0370.png:[blocks in formation] embolum, n. See embolon . embolus (em'bo-lus), n.; pl. emboli (-li). [L., the piston of a pump, έμβολος , masc., έμ- βολον , neut., anything pointed so as to thrust in easily, a peg, stopper, etc., prop. an adj., thrown or thrust in, or that may be thrown or thrust in, ἐν , in, + βάλλειν, throw.] 1. Something inserted into or acting within something else; that which thrusts or drives, as a piston or wedge.-2. The clot of fibrin obstructing a blood-ve el, caus- as, capillary emboli .-3. The embolizing embolisti IMG:content-0371.png:[blocks in formation] nucleus emboli form is of the cerebellum. Also embolon, embolum.