v. Obs. Also 4 vnbigo, 5 vmbego, vmbigo, vmbygo. [f. UMBE- + GO v. Cf. MDu. ommebegaen, and UMGO v.] trans. To go around, to encircle; to surround with something.
c. 1300. Havelok, 1842. Þe laddes were kaske and teyte, And vn-bi-yeden him ilkon, Sum smot with tre, and sum wit ston.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., A. 210. Her lere leke al hyr vmbe-gon.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 9468. Rofe and wal and euery a gable,… Courbel, beme, and euery a ston, With riche gold was vmbygon.
1430–40. in MS. Bodl. 423, fol. 186 b. A weddynge cote…. the whiche shuld be a maydens cote, vmbigoon with diuersitees of vertues.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., II. 197. In herbis letuce vmbigoon wol growe.
