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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Em*bos"om\, v. t. [Written also imbosom.]
1. To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to
   foster.

         Glad to embosom his affection.        --Spenser.

2. To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in
   the midst of something.

         His house embosomed in the grove.     --Pope.

         Some tender flower . . . . Embosomed in the greenest
         glade.                                --Keble.

 

 

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