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bow⋅er
1
[bou-er] 
ər
–noun
| 1. | a leafy shelter or recess; arbor. |
| 2. | a rustic dwelling; cottage. |
| 3. | a lady's boudoir in a medieval castle. |
–verb (used with object)
| 4. | to enclose in or as in a bower; embower. |
Related forms:
bow⋅er⋅like, adjective
bow
2 [boh] –noun
| 1. | a flexible strip of wood or other material, bent by a string stretched between its ends, for shooting arrows: He drew the bow and sent the arrow to its target. |
| 2. | an instrument resembling this, used for various purposes, as rotating a drill or spindle, or loosening entangled or matted fibers. |
| 3. | a bend or curve. |
| 4. | Also called bowknot. a looped knot composed of two or more loops and two ends, as for tying together the ends of a ribbon or string. |
| 5. | any separate piece of looped, knotted, or shaped gathering of ribbon, cloth, paper, etc., used as a decoration, as on a package, dress, or the like. |
| 6. | a long rod, originally curved but now nearly straight, with horsehairs stretched from one end to the other, used for playing on a musical instrument of the violin and viol families. |
| 7. | a single movement of such a device over the strings of a violin, viol, or the like. |
| 8. | bow tie. |
| 9. | something curved or arc-shaped. |
| 10. | a saddlebow. |
| 11. | an archer; bowman: He is the best bow in the county. |
| 12. | temple 2 (def. 3). |
| 13. | a U-shaped piece for placing under an animal's neck to hold a yoke. |
| 14. | Building Trades. a flexible rod used for laying out large curves. |
| 15. | the part of a key grasped by the fingers. |
| 16. | the loop on the stem of a watch by which the watch is attached to a chain or the like. |
| 17. | a rainbow. |
–adjective
| 18. | curved outward at the center; bent: bow legs. |
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
| 19. | to bend into the form of a bow; curve. |
| 20. | Music. to perform by means of a bow upon a stringed instrument. |
| 21. | Textiles Obsolete. to loosen by passing a vibrating bow among entangled fibers. |
Related forms:
bowedness, noun
bowless, adjective
bowlike, adjective
bow
3 [bou] –noun
| 1. | Nautical, Aeronautics.
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| 2. | bows, Nautical. the exterior of the forward end of a vessel, esp. one in which the hull slopes back on both sides of the stem. |
| 3. | the foremost oar in rowing a boat. |
| 4. | Also called bowman, bow oar. the person who pulls that oar. |
–adjective
—Idioms| 5. | of or pertaining to the bow of a ship. |
| 6. | bows on, (of a ship) with the bow foremost: The vessel approached us bows on. |
| 7. | bows under, (of a ship) shipping water at the bow: The ship was bows under during most of the storm. |
| 8. | on the bow, Nautical. within 45° to the heading of the vessel. |
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| bow·er 1 (bou'ər) n.
To enclose in or as if in a bower; embower. [Middle English bour, a dwelling, from Old English būr; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.] bow'er·y adj. |
| bow·er 2 (bou'ər) n. Nautical An anchor carried at the bow. |
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Bower
Bo"wer\, n. [From Bow, v. & n.]1. One who bows or bends. 2. (Naut.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. 3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. --Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.Bower
Bow"er\ (bou"[~e]r), n. [G. bauer a peasant. So called from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See Boor.] One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre. Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the "Joker") in the game. Left bower, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value. Best bower or Joker, in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence of all others as the highest card.Bower
Bow"er\, n. [OE. bour, bur, room, dwelling, AS. b[=u]r, fr. the root of AS. b[=u]an to dwell; akin to Icel. b[=u]r chamber, storehouse, Sw. b[=u]r cage, Dan. buur, OHG. p[=u]r room, G. bauer cage, bauer a peasant. [root]97] Cf.Boor, Byre.]1. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. --Gascoigne. 2. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. --Shenstone. B. Johnson. 3. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.Bower
Bow"er\, v. t. To embower; to inclose. --Shak.Bower
Bow"er\, v. i. To lodge. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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bower
O.E. bur "room, hut, dwelling," from P.Gmc. *buraz (cf. Ger. bauer "birdcage"), from base *bu- "to dwell." Modern spelling developed after 1350. Sense of "leafy arbor" (place closed in by trees) is first attested 1523. Hence, too, Australia's bower-bird (1847). New York City's Bowery (1787) was originally a homestead farm (Du. bowerij); used attributively for its squalor since 1840.
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