embower

verb

Etymology: Ultimately from Old English būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr, (whence Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)). Equivalent to en- + bower.

1. To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.

   “Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d”

   “A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.”

2. To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.

   “But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;”

3. To form a bower.

   “Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr; or scattered sedge Afloat”