v. Obs. [f. EN- + BAIT v.1]

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  a.  ? To attract by a bait; also fig. b. To feed, glut (one’s malice).

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1567.  Drant, Horace’s Epist., I. xiii. E iiij. Such geare, As will embaite our Cesars eye.

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1611.  Florio, Adescaménto, an embaiting. Adescáre, to embait.

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a. 1620.  T. Robinson, Mary Magd., 531. The Crocodile can sorrowe to ye sight, And vnder sighes embaite his venom’d spight.

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