imbrue

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IMBRUE, verb transitive imbru'. [Gr. to moisten.] 1. To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench in a fluid, chiefly in blood. Whose arrows in my blood their wings imbrue Lucius pities the offenders, That would imbrue their hands in Cato's blood. 2. To pour out liquor.
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