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Terms vs Embowers - What's the difference?

terms | embowers |

As a noun terms

is .

As a verb embowers is

(embower).

terms

English

Noun

(head)
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    embowers

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (embower)

  • embower

    English

    Alternative forms

    * imbower

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
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  • Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, / Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d
  • * 1809 , , A History of New York …, by Dietrich Knickerbocker
  • A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.
  • * 1852 ,
  • And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott
  • * 1884 , , Bound Together
  • The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn
  • *1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
  • *:A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
  • To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
  • * 1591 , , Virgil’s Gnat , line 225
  • But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
  • To form a bower.
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