Hypertext Webster Gateway: "embosom"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Embosom \Em*bos"om\, v. t. [Written also imbosom.]
1. To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to
foster.

Glad to embosom his affection. --Spenser.

2. 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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