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To IMBIT'TER, v.a. To make bitter.—To deprive 
of pleafure; to make unhappy.—Is there any thing that 
more imbitters the enjoyments of this life than fhame. South. 
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IMBITTERING, f. The aft of making bitter. 
IMBO'AGED, adj. [from imbogare, barb. Lat.] Clofe 
pent.—All the vacation he lies imboaged behind the lattice 
of fome blind ale-houfe. Overbury. 
To IMBOD'Y, v. a. To condenfe to a body.—To in- 
veft with matter; to make corporeal.—Though affiduity 
In the molt fixed cogitation be no trouble to immaterial- 
Ized fpirits, yet is it more than our imbodied fouls can bear 
without laflitude. Glanville. 
An opening cloud reveals 
An heav’nly form imbody'd , and array’d 
With robes of light. Dry den. 
To bring together into one mafs or company ; to incor¬ 
porate : 
I by vow am fo embodied yours, 
That file which marries you mull marry me. Shahefpeare. 
To inclofe. Improper. —In thofe ftrata we fhall meet with 
the fame metal or mineral imbodied in ftone, or lodged in 
coal, that elfewhere we found in marie. Woodward. 
To IMBOD'Y, v. n. To unite into one mals ; to co- 
alefce.—The idea of white which fnow yielded yefterday, 
and another idea of white from another fnow to-day, put 
together in your mind, imbody and run into one, Locke. 
The foul grows clotted by contagion, 
Imbodies and imbrutes, ’till file quite lofe 
The divine property of her firft being. Milton. 
To IMBO'IL, v. n. To exeftuate; to effervefce; to move 
with violent agitation like hot liquor in a caldron. Not 
in ufe: 
With whofe reproach and odious menace, 
The knight imboiling in his haughty heart. 
Knit all his forces, and ’gan foon unbrace, 
His grafping hold. Fairy Queen. 
To IMBOL'DEN, v. a. To raife to confidence ; to en¬ 
courage.—I was the more imboldened , becaufe I found I 
had a foul congenial to his. Dryden. 
Nor flight was left, nor hopes to force his way ; 
Imboldend by defpair, he flood at bay. Dryden. 
IMBOL'DENING,_/ The aft of making confident. 
IMBOR'DERING, f. The aft of furnifhing with a 
border. 
To IMBO'SOM, v. a. To hold on the bofom; to cover 
fondly with the folds of one’s garment; to hide under 
any cover -. 
The Father infinite. 
By whom in blifs imbojom'd fat the Son. Milton. 
To admit to the heart, or to afleftion : 
But glad defire, his late imbofom'd guelt. 
Yet but a babe, with milk of fight he nurft. Sidney. 
IMBO'SOMING, f. The aft of putting into the bofom.. 
To IMBO'UND, v. a. To inclofe; to ihut in : 
That fweet breath. 
Which was imbounded in this beauteous clay. Shakefpeare. 
To IMBOW', v. a. To arch ; to vault.— Imbowed win¬ 
dows be pretty retiring places for conference; they keep 
both the wind and fun off. Bacon. 
Let my due feet never fail 
To walk the ftudious cloilfer’s pale, 
And love the high imbowed roof. 
With antic pillar malty proof. Milton. 
To IMBOW'ER, v.a. To coyer with a bower; to fliel- 
ter with trees 
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And Hooping thence to Ham’s imbowering walks, 
In fpotlefs peace retir’d. ° Thomforr. 
IMBO W'ERING,yi The aft of covering with the fhade- 
of trees. 
IMBOW'ING,y. The aft of forming arches. 
IMBOW MENT, /. Arch; vault. — The roof all open, 
not fo much as any imbowment near any of the walls left- 
Bacon. 
IMBRA'CERY, yi A law term; the crime of tamper¬ 
ing with a jury. 
To IMBRAN'GLE, v. a. To intangle.. A low word: 
With fubtle cobweb cheats 
They’re catch’d in knotted law, like nets; 
In which, when once they are imbrangled, 
Tire more they Itir, the more they’re tangled. Hudibras. 
IMBRICA'RIA, /. in botany, a genus of the clafk 
pentandria, order monogynia. Eflential generic charac - 
ters—Petals five ; ftigma capitate ; capfule covered with 
the calyx, two-celled, many-feeded. 
Species, x. Imbricaria crennlata: leaves obovate, wedc-e- 
form, crenulate towards the tip; petals and calyx denticu¬ 
late. 2, Imbricaria ciliata : leaves linear, three-fided,.ci- 
liate ; calyxes ciliate ; germ five-fided. Both natives of 
New South Wales. Linn. Tranf. iii. 257. 
IM'BRICATED, adj. [from imbrex , Lat.] Indented' 
with concavities; bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter- 
tile ; placed over each other at the edges, like the tiles of 
a houfe. A word ufed chiefly in natural hiftory, as in 
botany and ichthyology. 
IMBRICATION, f. Concaveindenture.—All is guard¬ 
ed with a well-made tegument, adorned with neat imbri¬ 
cations, and many other fineries. Derham. 
IM'BRO, an ifland in the Grecian Archipelago, moun¬ 
tainous and woody, with plenty of game ; it is about 
twenty miles in circumference, and contains five villages, 
two of which are defended by caftles. Lat. 40. 10. n! 
Ion. 4.3. 30. E. Ferro. 
IMBROCA'DO, f. [Spanifh.] Cloth of gold or filver. 
IMBRO CUS, J'. In oiu records, a brook, a dram, sv 
water-courfe. 
To IMBROI'DER, v. a. To embroider. 
To IMBROW'N, v. a. To make brown ; to darken ; 
to obfcure; to cloud.— Imbrown the Hope and nod on the 
parterre. Pope. 
To IMBRU'E, v. a. To fteep ; to foak ; to wet much 
or long. This feems indifferently written with im or em. 
—The mercilefs Turks, embrued with the Chriflian blood", 
were weary of (laughter, and began greedily to feek after 
the fpoil. Knolles. 
At me, as at a mark, his bow he drew, 
Whofe arrows in my blood their wings imbrua Sandys. 
To pour; to emit moiflure. Obfolete: 
Some bathed kiffes, and did oft imbrue 
The fugar’d liquor through his melting lips. Fairy Queen, 
To IMBRU'TE, v. a. To degrade to brutality: 
I, who erft contended 
With gods to fit the higheft, am now conftrain’d 
Into a bead; and mix with beftial (lime. 
This effence to incarnate and imbrute. . Milton. 
To IMBRUTE, v. n. To fink down to brutality: 
The foul grows clotted by contagion, 
Imbodies and imbrutes , ’till fhe quite lofe 
The divine property of her firft being. Milton. 
IMBST, or Ymbst, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Tyrol; nine miles fouth-fouth-eafl of Reutte, 
To IMBU'E, v. a. [imbuo, Lat.] To tincture deep ; to 
imbibe or foak with any liquor or die.—I would render 
this treatile . intelligible to every rational man, however 
little verfed in fcholaftic learning 5 among whom I expeft 
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