Definition of "embosom" [em•bos•om]

• To enclose protectively; envelop. (verb-transitive)
• Archaic To clasp to or hold in the bosom. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Or maybe the elephant thought the man was stealing soil to take home to enrich his garden, to encourage new growth instead of leaving the soil where its only role was to embosom the dead."
• "We give ourselves in all seriousness to horticulture, and embosom the chalet in flowers, of which we are passionately fond."
• "That in years gone by — how long gone by I cannot tell, but I think some centuries — before the city had over-spread this quarter, and when it was tilled ground and avenue, and such deep and leafy seclusion as ought to embosom a religious house-that something had happened on this site which, rousing fear and inflicting horror, had left to the place the inheritance of a ghost-story."