embosom, embosome

t. [Pref. em, and Eng. bosom (q.v)] Embordered. 1. To place in or take into the bosom; to cherish; to admit to and treat with the greatest affection. IMG:content-0911.png:[blocks in formation] "His house embosom'd in the grove." Pope. Horace , bk. iv., ode i. marine; gō, põět, pine, pit, sire, sir, embo ěm-bo (1), *en-bo , v. t. [O. Fr. embo er = to swell or rise in bunches: emin, and bo e a bunch, a bo .] 1. To form natural lumps or swellings upon; to cover with swellings or protuberances. "Botches and blains must all his flesh embo ." Milton. P. L., xii. 180. 2. To cover with bo es or studs. "The studs, that thick embo his iron door." Cowper. Task, v. 426. 3. To ornament with relief or raised work. "The pillared porch, elaborately embo ed." Words worth. Excursion, bk. viii. 4. To engrave in relief or embo ed work; to represent with raised figures. "Then o'er the lofty gate his art embo ed Androgeos' death." Dryden: Virgil's Æneid , vi. 25, 26. 5. To ornament with worked figures; to embroider. "Exhibiting flowers in their natural colors, embo ed upon a purple ground." --Sir W. Scott.