[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That forms a bower; that surrounds as with a bower.
a. 1718. Parnell, Poet. Wks. (1833), 32. From Helicon’s imbowering height repair.
1792. S. Rogers, Pleas. Mem., II. 240. Imbowering shrubs with verdure veiled the sky.
1821. Scott, Kenilw., xxv. Above the embowering and richly shaded woods.
1852. Mrs. Jameson, Leg. Madonna (1857), 129. A most luxuriant landscape thick with imbowering trees.
