Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

IM-BRI-CA'TION, n.

A concave indenture, like that of tile; tiling. Derham.

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

1. [1844] In the drama, an intricate, complicated plot.
2. [1841] Intricacy; a complicated plot.

IM-BROWN', v.t. [in and brown.]

1. To make brown; to darken; to obscure.
2. To darken the color of; to make dirty. The foot grows black that was with dirt imbrown'd. Gay.
3. To tan; to darken the complexion.

IM-BROWN'ED, pp.

Made brown; darkened; tanned.

IM-BROWN'ING, pp.

Rendering brown; darkening; tanning.

IM-BRUE', v.t. [imbru'; Gr. εμβρεχω, to moisten; εν and βρεχω. Hence it is allied to embrocate, and Sp. embriagar, to intoxicate. See Ebriety, Brook, and Rain.]

1. To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench in a fluid, chiefly in blood. Whose arrows in my blood their wings imbrue. Sandys. Lucius 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.

IM-BRUTE', v.i.

To sink to the state of a brute. The soul grows clotted by contagion, / Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose / The divine property of her first being. Milton's Comus, v. 466. Thus also Satan speaks of the debasement and corruption of his original divine essence. Mix'd with bestial slime, / This essence to incarnate and imbrute, / That to the highth of deity aspir'd. Parad. Lost, 9. 165.

IM-BRUTE', v.t. [in and brute.]

To degrade to the state of a brute; to reduce to brutality. And mix with bestial slime / This essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton.

IM-BRUT'ED, pp.

Degraded to brutism.

IM-BRUT'ING, ppr.

Reducing to brutishness.

IM-BUE', v.t. [imbu'; L. imbuo; in and the root of Eng. buck; to buck cloth, that is, to dip, drench or steep in water.]

1. To tinge deeply; to dye; as, to imbue cloth. Boyle.
2. To tincture deeply; to cause to imbibe; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.

IM-BU'ED, pp.

Tinged; dyed; tinctured.

IM-BU'ING, ppr.

Tinging; dyeing; tincturing deeply.

IM-BU'MENT, n.

A deep tincture.

IM-BURSE', v.t. [imburs'. See Burse.]

. To supply money, or to stock with money. [Not used.]

IM-BURSE'MENT, n.

1. The act of supplying money.
2. Money laid up in stock.

IM-BU'TION, n.

Act of imbuing. Lee.

IM-I-TA-BIL'I-TY, n. [See Imitable, Imitate.]

The quality of being imitable. Norris.