obs. form of EMBER2.
1550. Acts Privy Council (1891), III. 68. Holiedaies or fastinge daies as Lent, Ymbar daies, or any such lyke.
Ymbarge, obs. form of EMBARGE v.
1585. MS. Tanner 78, 52. They shall ymbarge or arrest the Duke of Florrences Gallion.
Ymbassator, -bassutt, obs. var. AMBASSADOR, AMBASSADE.
1484. Cely Papers (Camden), 149. To goo as ymbassutt for the stappell to Dewke Phyllypp.
1543. in Lodge, Illustr. Brit. Hist. (1791), I. 45. The Frenche Ymbassator has not proponyt that mattr as yet.
Ymber, ymbre, obs. forms of EMBER1.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 254. Our old faders wolden ete þes dayes kakes bakyn yn þe ymbres.
1588. Kyd, Househ, Phil., Wks. (1901), 273.
| The first sleepe ended, after midnight did the woman wake | |
| That liud by spinning, and she gins the ymbers vp to rake. |
Ymbir-, ymbre(n, etc., obs. ff. EMBER2.
Ymbolden, obs. f. EMBOLDEN, IMBOLDEN.
1611. W. Adams, Lett., in Rundall, Men. Japon (Hakl. Soc.), 31. I haue ymboldened my selfe to write these few lines in breife.
Ymbrasour, obs. form of EMBRACER2.
Ymbroder, obs. form of EMBROIDER.
1562–3. N. Country Wills (Surtees, 1912), 37. A suyte of blewe velvet ymbrodered.
1638. Abridgm. Specif. Patents, Furniture (1869), 1. Ymbrodering or hufling of guilded leather.
