a. (Naut.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. bent over; -- used of back or head.
Syn. -- bent, inclined. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Music) sounded by stroking with a bow; -- of a stringed musical instrument; as, bowed instruments. Contrasted with plucked. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. resembling an arch.
Syn. -- arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. same as bow-legged.
Syn. -- bandy, bandy-legged, bowleg, bowlegged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. submitting to the authority of another.
Syn. -- bowing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F. boyau, fr. L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L. botulus sausage. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

His soldiers . . . cried out amain,
And rushed into the bowels of the battle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. “Thou thing of no bowels.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Offspring. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boweled or Bowelled p. pr. & vb. n. Boweling or Bowelling. ] To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Written also bowelled. ] Having bowels; hollow. “The boweled cavern.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without pity. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From G.T. Bowen, who analyzed it in 1822. ] (Min.) A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bow, v. & n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who bows or bends. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers
Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Best bower,
Small bower. See the Note under Anchor. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bour, bur, room, dwelling, AS. būr, fr. the root of AS. būan to dwell; akin to Icel. būr chamber, storehouse, Sw. būr cage, Dan. buur, OHG. pūr room, G. bauer cage, bauer a peasant. √97 ] Cf.Boor, Byre. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me my lute in bed now as I lie,
And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. Shenstone. B. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To embower; to inclose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lodge. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bough, cf. Brancher. ] (Falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Metal.) A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600° F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric oxide (Fe2O3) and the subsequent change of this in a reduced atmosphere to the magnetic oxide (Fe2O4). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Zool.) An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus or Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus), allied to the starling. The male constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects to attract females; the satin bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied to other related birds of the same region, having similar habits; as, the spotted bower bird (Chalmydodera maculata), and the regent bird (Sericulus melinus). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Boweries [ D. bouwerij. ] A farm or plantation with its buildings. [ U. S. Hist. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The emigrants [ in New York ] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into “villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing.” Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Falconry) Same as Bower. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A crossbowman.[ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Bowel, v. t. ] To disembowel. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Embowel. ] 1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep
From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [ R. ] “Her disemboweled web.” J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [ Poetic ] Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Emboweled r Embowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Emboweling or Embowelling. ] 1. To disembowel. [ 1913 Webster ]

The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

The boar . . . makes his trough
In your emboweled bosoms. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who takes out the bowels. [ Written also emboweller. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disembowelment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [ Written also imbower. ] [ Poetic ] Milton. -- v. i. To lodge or rest in a bower. [ Poetic ] “In their wide boughs embow'ring. ” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having lofty arches. “The high-embowed roof.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Embowel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. See Embower. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term is sometimes applied to other plants of the same genus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Convex; curved outward. “The convex or outbowed side of a vessel.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Formed with or like a rainbow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. un- not + bowed. ] Not bent or arched; not bowed down. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Unboweled r Unbowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Unboweling or Unbowelling. ] [ 1st pref. un- + bowel. ] To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]