释义 |
embox, v.|ɛmˈbɒks| Also 7 imboxe. [f. en- + box n.2] trans. To set in or as in a box.
1611Cotgr., Emboister, to imboxe. 1732Fielding Cov. Gard. Trag. i. iii, In Goodman's-fields the city dame Emboxed sits. 1828Lamb Lett. in C. and M. C. Clarke (1878) 160 The Watchmen are emboxed in a niche of fame. 1835Kirby Bridgewater Tr. (1852) II. 211 More than thirty alternate layers of earth and web, emboxed, as it were, in each other. |