Word Meanings - EMBOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bend like a bow; to curve. "Embowed arches." Sir W. Scott. With gilded horns embowed like the moon. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to EMBOW)

• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• EMBOWL
  To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.
• HORNSTONE
  A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
• GILD
  Etym: 1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." Pope. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. Pope. 2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor,
• EMBOWEL
  1. To disembowel. The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. Shak. Note: Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense. 2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• GILDALE
  A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share.
• ARCHES
  pl. of Arch, n. Court of arches, or Arches Court , the court of appeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whereof the judge, who sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the Arches, because he anciently held his court in the church
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• GILDER
  One who gilds; one whose occupation is to overlay with gold.
• EMBOWELER
  One who takes out the bowels.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• GILDING
  1. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold. 2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface. 3. Any superficial coating or appearance,
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• CURVEDNESS
  The state of being curved.
• CURVET
  1. To make a curvet; to leap; to bound. 'Oft and high he did curvet." Drayton. 2. To leap and frisk; to frolic. Shak.
• GILDEN
  Gilded. Holland.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• EMBOWELMENT
  Disembowelment.
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• OVERGILD
  To gild over; to varnish.
• THORNSET
  Set with thorns. Dyer.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• ENGILD
  To gild; to make splendent. Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak.
• ELECTRO-GILDING
  The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
• MONARCHESS
  A female monarch.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• OCTOGILD
  A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing.
• HIGH-EMBOWED
  Having lofty arches. "The high-embowed roof." Milton.
• REGILD
  To gild anew.