• IPA: /ɛmˈbaʊɚ/

embower (embowers, present participle embowering; past and past participle embowered)

1. (transitive, poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

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

   • 1809, Washington Irving, A History of New York …, by Dietrich Knickerbocker

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

   • 1852, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

     And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott

   • 1884, Donald Grant Mitchell, Bound Together

     The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn

2. (intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil’s Gnat, line 225

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

3. (intransitive) To form a bower.
   • John Milton