BPage 357
- English Word Bower Definition To embower; to inclose.
- English Word Bower Definition To lodge.
- English Word Bower Definition A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- English Word Bower bird Definition An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus / holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects; the satin bird.
- English Word Boweries Definition of Bowery
- English Word Bowery Definition Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
- English Word Bowery Definition A farm or plantation with its buildings.
- English Word Bowery Definition Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.
- English Word Bowess Definition Same as Bower.
- English Word Bowfin Definition A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.
- English Word Bowge Definition To swell out. See Bouge.
- English Word Bowge Definition To cause to leak.
- English Word Bowgrace Definition A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.
- English Word Bowhead Definition The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.
- English Word Bowie knife Definition A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.
- English Word Bowing Definition of Bow
- English Word Bowing Definition of Bow
- English Word Bowing Definition The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.
- English Word Bowing Definition In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.
- English Word Bowingly Definition In a bending manner.