Word Meanings - EMBOWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.

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• 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.
• LODGEABLE
  1. That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village. 2. Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. " The lodgeable area of the earth." Jeffrey.
• 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.
• BOWER BIRD
  An Australian bird , allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with brightcolored objects; the satin bird. Note: The name is also applied to other related birds of the same region, having
• EMBOWELER
  One who takes out the bowels.
• BOWERY
  Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.
• LODGER
  One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
• LODGED
  Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.
• BOWER-BARFF PROCESS
  A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600º
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• EMBOWELMENT
  Disembowelment.
• LODGEMENT
  See LODGMENT
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• LODGE
  The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. Raymond. 3. A collection of objects lodged together. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. De Foe.
• BOWER
  An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. 3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor. (more
• EMBOW
  To bend like a bow; to curve. "Embowed arches." Sir W. Scott. With gilded horns embowed like the moon. Spenser.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• UNLODGE
  To dislodge; to deprive of lodgment. Carew.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• HIGH-EMBOWED
  Having lofty arches. "The high-embowed roof." Milton.
• RELODGE
  To lodge again.
• IMBOWER
  See EMBOWER
• DISLODGE
  1. To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms. 2. To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or
• DISEMBOWEL
  1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson. 2. To take or draw from the body,
• CROSSBOWER
  A crossbowman.