Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-BORD'ER-ING, ppr.

Furnishing, inclosing or adorning with a border; bounding.

IM-BOSK, v.t. [It ineboscare. See Busk]

To conceal, as in bushes; to hide. Minos.

IM-BO'SOM, [v. t. s as z. in and bosom.]

1. To hold in the bosom; to cover fondly with the folds of one's garment
2. To hold in nearness or intimacy. The Father infinite, By whom in bliss imbosomed sat the son.
3. To admit to the heart or affection; to caress; But glad desire, his late imbosom'd guest, Sidney.
4. To inclose in the midst; to surround. Villages imbosomed soft in trees. Thomson.
5. To inclose in the midst; to cover; as, pearls imbosomed in the deep.

IM-BO'SOM-ED, pp.

Held in the bosom or to the breast; caressed; surrounded in the midst; inclosed; covered.

IM-BO'SOM-ING, ppr.

folding in the bosom; caressing; holding to the breast; inclosing or covering in the midst

IM-BOUND', v.t. [in and bound.]

To inclose in limits; to shut in. [Little used.]

IM-BOW', v.t. [in and bow.]

1. To arch; to vault; as, an ins bowed roof.
2. To make of a circular form; as, unbowed windows Barns.

IM-BOW'ED, pp.

Arched; vaulted; made of a circular form.

IM-BOW'ER,

See EMBOWER.

IM-BOW'ING, ppr.

Arching; vaulting; making of a circular form.

IM-BOW'MENT, n.

An arch; a vault.

IM-BOX', v.t.

To inclose in a box.

IM-BOX'ED, pp.

Inclosed in a box.

IM-BOX'ING,

ppr Inclosing in a box. IM-BRAN'GLE; v. i. To entangle. Hudibras.

IM-BRED', pp.

Generated within.

IM-BREED, v.t.

To generate within.

IM-BREEDING, ppr.

Generating within.

IM'BRI-CATE, or IM'BRI-CA-TED, a. [L. inabricatus, imbrico, from imbrez, a tile.]

1. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile. Johnson.
2. In botany, lying over each other, like tiles on a roof; with a straight surface, and lying one over the other; as leaves in the bud. Lee. Marlyn

IM-BRI-CATION, n.

1. A concave indenture, like that of tile; tiling. Derham. IM-BROWN v. t. [in and brown.]
2. To make brown; to darken; to obscure.
3. To darken the color of; to make dirty. The foot grows black that was with dirt imbrown'd. Gay.
4. To tan; to darken the complexion.

IM-BROG-LIO, n. imbrolio. [It.]

In the drama, an intricate, complicated plot.

IM-BROWN'ED, pp.

Made brown; darkened; tanned.

IM-BROWN'ING, pp.

Rendering brown; darkening; tanning.

IM-BRUE, v.t. [imbru'. Gr. {foreign}, to moisten; I, and {foreign}. Hence it is allied to embrocate, and Sp. embriagor, I to intoxicate. See Ebriety, Brook, and Rain.]

1. To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench in a fluid, chiefly d in blood. Whose arrows in my blood their wings imbrue. Sandia. Lucans pities the offenders, That would imbrue their hands in Cato's blood. Addison.
2. To pour out liquor. [Obs.] Spenser.

IM-BRU'ED, pp.

Wet; moistened; drenched.,

IM-BRU'ING, ppr.

Wetting; moistening; drenching.