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embowed, ppl. a.|ɛmˈbəʊd|
[f. embow v.1]
1. Bent or curved into the form of a bow; convex, bow-like.
1578Lyte Dodoens 707 Long lyke a Peare, with certayne embowed or swelling diuisions. 1591Spenser Vis. Worlds Vanitie ii. With gilden hornes embowed like the Moone. 1639Horn & Robotham Gate Lang. Unl. xciv. (1643) §759 A globe is round, being embowed on the out-side, and hollow on the in-side. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece iii. vi. (1715) 61 The Wings are doubled, by bestowing the light-arm'd Men under them in an embow'd Form. 1855–9Singleton Virgil II. 473 Th' imbowèd points together met.
b. Her. (See quots.)
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xxii. (1660) 234 He beareth, Azure, a Dolphin Nasant, Imbowed Argent. 1761Brit. Mag. II. 532 Two arms counter, embowed, and vested, gules. 1830Robson Brit. Herald, Glossary, Embowed (Fr. courbé) bent, or bowed. Embowed contrary, bowed in opposite directions. Embowed dejected, bowed with the extremity turned downwards. 1864Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. x. 56 An Arm..when bent at the elbow is embowed.
2. Arch.
a. Arched, vaulted.
b. Curved or projecting outward, so as to form a recess (cf. bow n.1 12, bow-window).
1481Caxton Orat. P.C. Scipion D. viii. in Tulle on Friendsh. The stone werkes enbowed called the Arches tryumphal. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 36 The fair embowed or vawted roofs. 1617Sir R. Boyle Diary (1886) I. 169, I agreed with..the carpentere to putt a new compaste imbowed Roof on my Chapple. 1632Milton Penseroso 157 Love the high embowéd roof. 1823Rutter Fonthill 50 In the embowed recess are three windows. 1826Scott Woodst. i, The ancient embow'd arches of the old chantry. 1864D. Mitchell Sev. Stor. 205 An embowed window. |