EMBOSOM

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster. Glad to embosom his affection. Spenser.

2.
v.

To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something. His house embosomed in the grove. Pope. Some tender flower . . . . Embosomed in the greenest glade. Keble.


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