Embrew

Em`brew´


v. t.1.To imbrue; to stain with blood.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
References in periodicals archive
Great shame it is, thing so divine in view, Made for to be the worlds most ornament To make the bayte her gazers to embrew: Good shames to be to ill an instrument.
Edmund Spenser's bestiary in the Amoretti (1595)
The Folio describes Bassianus as "embrewed here / All on a heape" (TLN 976-77), while the Quarto records him as being "bereaud in blood" (18).
Economies of nature in Shakespeare
With Mahometrie and Idol blud embrewed" and found to be even more depraved.
King Arthur, Scotland, Utopia, and the Italianate Englishman: What Does Race Have to Do with It?
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