v. Also 7 imboxe. [f. EN- + BOX sb.2] trans. To set in or as in a box.

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1611.  Cotgr., Emboister, to imboxe.

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1732.  Fielding, Cov. Gard. Trag., I. iii. In Goodman’s-fields the city dame Emboxed sits.

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1828.  Lamb, Lett., in C. and M. C. Clarke (1878), 160. The Watchmen are emboxed in a niche of fame.

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1835.  Kirby, Bridgewater Tr. (1852), II. 211. More than thirty alternate layers of earth and web, emboxed, as it were, in each other.

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