Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-BIT'TER-ING, ppr.

Rendering unhappy or distressing; exasperating.

IM-BOD'I-ED, pp. [See Embody.]

Formed into a body.

IM-BOD'Y, v. [See EMBODY.]

IM-BOLD'EN, v. [See EMBOLDEN.]

IM-BORD'ER, v.t. [in and border.]

1. To furnish or inclose with a border; to adorn with a border.
2. To terminate; to bound. Milton.

IM-BORD'ER-ED, pp.

Furnished, inclosed or adorned with a border; bounded.

IM-BORD'ER-ING, ppr.

Furnishing, inclosing or adorning with a border; bounding.

IM-BOSK', v.t. [It. imboscare. See Bush.]

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

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. Milton.
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.

Holding 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.] Shak.

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

1. To arch; to vault; as, an imbowed roof.
2. To make of a circular form; as, unbowed windows. Bacon.

IM-BOW'ED, pp.

Arched; vaulted; made of a circular form.

IM-BOW'ER, v.i. [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.t.

To entangle. Hudibras.

IM-BRED', pp.

Generated within.

IM-BREED, v.t.

To generate within.

IM-BREED'ING, ppr.

Generating within.

IM'BRI-CATE, or IM'BRI-CA-TED, a. [L. imbricatus, imbrico, from imbrex, 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; parallel, with a straight surface, and lying one over the other; as leaves in the bud. Lee. Martyn.