Em*bow"er (?), v. t. To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [Written also imbower.] [Poetic] Milton. -- v. i. To lodge or rest in a bower. [Poetic] "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser.

• (transitive) (poetic) to enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
       
• (RQ:Milton Lost 1674, 9) - Her hand he seis'd, and to a shadie bank, / Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr'd
       
• 1809: Washington Irving, A History of New York ..., by Dietrich Knickerbocker - A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.
       
• 1852: Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott - And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott
       
• 1884: Donald Grant Mitchell, Bound Together - The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn
  
• (intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
       
• 1591: Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, line 225 - But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
  
• (intransitive) To form a bower. - John Milton