embow
Verb
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Verb
embow (embows, present participle embowing; past and past participle embowed)
- (obsolete, ambitransitive) To bend like a bow; to curve.
- 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (
please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed [by James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, OCLC 991895633 ↗: - with gilded horns embowed like the moon
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