embower

verb /ɛmˈbaʊɚ/

1. To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.

   transitive

   Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d

   Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank,

2. To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.

   intransitive

   But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;

3. To form a bower.

   intransitive

   In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr; or scattered sedge Afloat

   Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks

Where it comes from

Ultimately from Old English būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr, (whence Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)). Equivalent to en- + bower.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry embower (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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