embower

verb

1. (poetic, transitive)To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.

   “Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d”

   “A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.”

   “The house stood in a situation so embowered, solitary, and remote from others, that when evening closed in, Mrs. De Brooke and her daughter, had they not reposed their security on the usual tranquillity of the neighbourhood, might have felt their courage forsake them;[…]”

   “And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott”

   “The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn”

2. (intransitive)To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.

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

3. (intransitive)To form a bower.

   “Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr; or scattered sedge Afloat”