[f. WOMB sb.]
1. trans. To enclose as in a womb.
1557. Tottel’s Misc. (Arb.), 239. The hidden harme … Wombed within our walles and realme about, As Grekes in Troy were in the Grekish beast.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., IV. iv. 501. Not … for all the Sun sees, or The close earth wombes,… will I breake my oath.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 113. In this from out another tree A bud they womb.
1871. G. Macdonald, Somnium Myst., v. 30. A world that lay Wombed in its sun.
† 2. To cause to swell out: = BELLY v. 1. nonce-use.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, I. [II.] lxi. 57. Once lanched forth, hee may … find the blast, to wombe out his sailes more fully.
3. pa. pple. Impregnated with. nonce-use.
1786. J. Courtenay, Poet. Rev. Char. Johnson, 16.
| As womb’d with fire the cloud electrick flies, | |
| And calmly o’er the horizon seems to rise. |
