embosom

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Other parts are laid into floors, or wrought into wainscoting, or carved for frames of noble pictures, or fashioned into chairs that embosom the weakness of old age.

From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett

At the silence of twilight's contemplative hour, I have mused in a sorrowful mood, On the wind-shaken weeds that embosom the bower, Where the home of my forefathers stood.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829 by Various

The hills embosom a clear little creek called after the yellow rattlesnake, which is almost as plentiful a luxury in these wilds as the grasshopper.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various

Do they not embosom him in a style of grandeur worthy, if such it be, of a "City of Palaces?"

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah