Little Hawk's world is umbeset with imaginary friends.

Forms: α. ME– umbeset, ME vmbesette, ME–15 -set(t, wmbeset, 15 -sett, 15 ombeset(t; ME umbisett(e, ME vmbi-, ME vmbysett. β. ME vnbesette, 15–16 -set, 15 unbeset, wnbesett.... (Show More)
Etymology: See umbe- prefixand beset v., and compare umb- prefixand umset v.So Middle Dutch omme-, ombesetp.p., Middle Danish ombesatp.p.... (Show More)
Obs. In later use Sc.
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    trans. To surround, encompass, beset.α.
a1300    Cursor Mundi 19775   Petre‥to þis licam com þat lai, Wit pouer widus vm-bi-sett.
a1400 (1325)    Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7179   Þai vmbisett þat tun a-bute.
c1475 (1400)    Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 48   Þe auter is vmbeset wiþ stonis.
1487 (1380)    J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 706   He till the hous went hastely, And vmbeset [1489 Adv. wmbeset] it all about.
1487 (1380)    J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 535   The kyng wes in gret Iuperdy, That wes on athir syde vmbeset With fayis.
1488 (1478)    Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) v. l. 168   At syndry furdis the gait thai wmbeset.
1513    G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xiv. 22   Quhou huge dolfnes, and schamful cowardice, Hes ombeset ȝour myndis apon sik wys.
1575    J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 3,   With Iacinth fine, and Topazion sa fair,‥Was vmbeset his bodye ouir all quhair.
1587    Reg. Privy Counc. Scot. IV. 162   Thai‥umbesettis thair hie wayes in thair ganging and cuming fra thair parroche kirk.
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c1440    Gesta Rom. (Add. MS.) lxv. 281   Whan the Steward was thus vnbesette with thise iij. bestes, he was right sory.
c1600    Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 168   Certane personis‥quha was werry bent to haue vnbesett him in the waij betuix Edinburgh and Berwick.
c1600    Hist. James VI (1804) 112   Thairfoir Lord Claud Hamiltoun unbeset the way with sum chosen men.
1624    in Abbotsford Club Misc. 144   Thomas Logie‥meitting ane number of cattis‥quhilk vnbesett him, the said Thomas saw ȝour face vpoun ane of [the] cattis.