Definition of Embowing

1. Verb. (present participle of embow) ¹

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Definition of Embowing

1. embow [v] - See also: embow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embowing

embow
embowed
embowel
emboweled
emboweling
embowelled
embowelling
embowelment
embowelments
embowels
embower
embowered
embowering
embowers
embowing (current term)
embowl
embowled
embowling
embowls
embows
embox
emboxed
emboxes
emboxing
emboîtement
embrace
embrace, extend and extinguish

Literary usage of Embowing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (1846)
"Thus Lydgate, " the fresh embowing with ... right as lynee," where the " embowing" expresses the groups of curved vault-ribs, and the " verges" the shafts ..."

2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1892)
"In the Colleges, he says, " many of the young divines were often seen writhing and embowing their clergy limbs to all the antics and dishonest gestures" of ..."

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