[f. BOWER sb.1]

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  1.  trans. To embower; to enclose. lit. and fig.

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1592.  Shaks., Rom. & Jul., III. ii. 81. When thou did’st bower the spirit of a fiend In mortall paradise of such sweet flesh?

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1798.  Southey, Eng. Eclog., i. Jessamine … canopied And bower’d and lined the porch.

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a. 1860.  M. Arnold, Sch. Gipsy, iii.

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  † 2.  intr. To lodge, shelter, make one’s dwellng.

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1596.  Spenser, F. Q., VI. X. vi. Trees of honour … Spredding pavilions for the birds to bowre.

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