imbed

verb

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of embed.

   “The curse of the steam-boat is upon the lovely river; but some of the villas, imbedded in their own old trees—surrounded by turf the fairy queen might tread—girdled with every variety of flowery shrub—I do not quite say I could spend the whole day there, but I could have a luxurious breakfast—one ought to indulge in natural tastes of a morning.”

   “To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.”

   “A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.”