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单词 imbosk
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imboskv.

Forms: Also 1500s -bosque.
Etymology: < Italian imboscare ‘to enter or goe into a wood, to take couert or shelter as a Deere doeth... Also to lay in ambush’ (Florio), < im- (im- prefix1) + bosco wood. Compare emboss v.2
Obsolete.
a. reflexive. To hide or conceal oneself.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > conceal oneself [verb (reflexive)]
hidec897
wryOE
shroudc1402
imbosk1562
shrine1570
thick1574
mew1581
burrow1596
dern1604
earth1609
veil1614
ensconcea1616
abscond1626
perdue1694
secrete1764
to stow away1795
1562 J. Shute tr. in Two Comm. Turcks ii. f. 11 Scanderbeg..went as secretly as possyble, to imbosque him selfe neare to that place.
1612–20 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1675) iii. viii. 46 Sancho..requesting him to depart..and imbosk himself in the mountain.
1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 221 He cares not..what contradictions he maintains, so he can but imbosk himself handsomely in them.
b. intransitive for reflexive.
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1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 39 They seek the dark, the bushie, the tangled Forrest, they would imbosk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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