enflower

English edit

Etymology edit

From en- +‎ flower.

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈflaʊə/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈflaʊɚ/
Hyphenation: en‧flow‧er
Rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ), -aʊə(ɹ)

Verb edit

enflower (third-person singular simple present enflowers, present participle enflowering, simple past and past participle enflowered)

(transitive, poetic) To cover or deck with flowers.
- c. 1597, Ben. Jonson, A Pleasant Comedy, Called: The Case is Alterd. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Bartholomew Sutton, and William Barrenger, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
  Millaine theſe od'rous and enfloured fields / Are none of thine, [...]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enflower”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)