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<hw>Em*bow"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>imbower</asp>.]</altsp> <mark>[Poetic]</mark> <i>Milton</i>. -- <def2><tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To lodge or rest in a bower.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark> "In their wide boughs <i>embow'ring.</i> "</def2>

<i>Spenser.</i>

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<hw>Em*bowl"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir P. Sidney.</i>

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<hw>Em*box"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To inclose, as in a box; to imbox.</def>

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<hw>Em*boysse"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Embushment</er>.]</ety> <def>An ambush.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

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<hw>Em*brace"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>em-</ets> (intens.) + <ets>brace</ets>, v. t.]</ety> <def>To fasten on, as armor.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

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<hw>Em*brace"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Embraced</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Embracing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>embracier</ets>, F. <ets>embrasser</ets>; pref. <ets>em-</ets> (L. <ets>in</ets>) + F. <ets>bras</ets> arm. See <er>Brace</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.</def>

<blockquote>I will <b>embrace</b> him with a soldier's arm, That he shall shrink under my courtesy. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Paul called unto him the disciples, and <b>embraced</b> them. <i>Acts xx. 1.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cling to; to cherish; to love.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.</def> "I <i>embrace</i> these conditions." "You <i>embrace</i> the occasion."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>What is there that he may not <b>embrace</b> for truth? <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To encircle; to encompass; to inclose.</def>

<blockquote>Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream <b>embraced</b>. <i>Denham.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; <as>as, natural philosophy <ex>embraces</ex> many sciences</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Not that my song, in such a scanty space, So large a subject fully can <b>embrace</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

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