Part 5566

<h1>Imbowment</h1> <Xpage=730>

<hw>Im*bow"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>act of imbowing; an arch; a vault.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Imbox</h1> <Xpage=730>

<hw>Im*box"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To inclose in a box.</def>

<h1>Imbracery</h1> <Xpage=730>

<hw>Im*bra"cer*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Embracery.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Imbraid</h1> <Xpage=730>

<hw>Im*braid"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <def>See <er>Embraid</er>.</def>

<h1>Imbrangle</h1> <Xpage=730>

<hw>Im*bran"gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Hudibras.</i>

<blockquote>Physiology <b>imbrangled</b> with an inapplicable logic. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Imbreed</h1> <Xpage=730>

<hw>Im*breed"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Inbreed</er>.]</ety> <def>To generate within; to inbreed.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Hakewill.</i>

<h1>Imbricate, Imbricated</h1> <Xpage=730>

<hw><hw>Im"bri*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Im"bri*ca`ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>imbricatus</ets>, p.p. of <ets>imbricare</ets> to cover with tiles, to form like a gutter tile, fr. <ets>imbrex</ets>, <ets>-icis</ets>, a hollow tile, gutter tile, fr. <ets>imber</ets> rain.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Lying over each other in regular order, so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in \'91stivation.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>In decorative art: Having scales lapping one over the other, or a representation of such scales; <as>as, an <ex>imbricated</ex> surface; an <ex>imbricated</ex> pattern.</as></def>

<h1>Imbricate</h1> <Xpage=730>

<hw>Im"bri*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.</def>

<h1>Imbrication</h1> <Xpage=730>

<hw>Im`bri*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>imbrication</ets>.]</ety> <def>An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.</def>

<h1>Imbricative</h1> <Xpage=730>

<hw>Im"bri*ca*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Imbricate.</def>

<h1>Imbrocado</h1> <Xpage=730>

<hw>Im`bro*ca"do</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Imbrocadoes</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[See <er>Brocade</er>.]</ety> <def>Cloth of silver or of gold.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>