BOWERS
BOW'ERSBOW'ERY, adjective Covering; shading as a bower; also, containing bowersA bowery maze that shades the purple streams.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BOWERY
BOW'ERY, a. Covering; shading as a bower; also, containing bowers.A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.
BOWESS
BOW'ESS, BOW'ET, noun A young hawk, when it begins to get out of the nest; a term in falconry.
BOWET
BOW'ESS, BOW'ET, noun A young hawk, when it begins to get out of the nest; a term in falconry.
BOWGE
BOWGE, verb intransitive To swell out. [See Bouge.]BOWGE, verb transitive To perforate; as, to bowge a ship.[I do not find this word in any other author.]
BOWING
BOW'ING, participle present tense Bending; stooping; making a bow.
BOWINGLY
BOW'INGLY, adverb In a bending manner.
BOWL
BOWL, noun [In Latin, vola is the hollow of the hand.]1. A concave vessel to hold liquors, rather wide than deep, and thus distinguished from a cup, which is rather deep than wi...
BOWLDER
BOWLDER, noun [from bowl.] A small stone of a roundish form, and of no determinate size, found on the sea shore and on the banks or in the channels of rivers, etc., worn smooth ...
BOWLDER-STONE
BOWLDER-STONE. [See Bowlder.]
BOWLDER-WALL
BOWLDER-WALL, noun A wall constructed of pebbles or bowlders of flint or other siliceous stones, which have been rounded by the action of water.
BOWLER
BOWLER, noun One who plays at bowls.
BOWLINE
BOWLINE, noun A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate parts, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of ...
BOWLING
BOWLING, participle present tense Playing at bowls.
BOWLING-GREEN
BOWLING-GREEN, noun [bowl and green.] A level piece of ground kept smooth for bowling.1. In gardening, a parterre in a grove, laid with fine turf, with compartments of divers fi...
BOWMAN
BOWMAN, noun [bow and man.] A man who uses a bow; an archer. Jeremiah 4:29.BOW'MAN, noun The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat.
BOWNET
BOWNET, noun [bow and net.] An engine for catching lobsters and crawfish, called also bow-wheel. It is made of two round wicker baskets, pointed at the end, one of which is thru...
BOWRS
BOW'RS, noun [from bos.] Muscles that bend the joints.
BOWSE
BOWSE, verb intransitive In seaman's language, to pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, to pull all together.
BOWSPRIT
BOWSPRIT, noun [bow and sprit.] A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward. [This is probably the true orthography.]
BOWSSEN
BOWSS'EN, verb transitive To drink; to drench. [Not used.]
BOWYER
BOWYER, noun [from bow, a corruption of bower, like sawyer.]An archer; one who uses a bow; one who makes bows. [Little used.]
BOX
BOX, noun [Lat. buxus, the tree, and pyxis, a box; Gr. a box and the tree.]A coffer or chest, either of wood or metal. In general, the word box is used for a case of rough board...
BOXED
BOX'ED, participle passive Inclosed in a box; struck on the head with the fist or hand; furnished with a box or hollow iron, as a wheel.
BOXEN
BOX'EN, adjective Made of box-wood; resembling box.
BOXER
BOX'ER, noun One who fights with his fist.BOX'-HAUL, verb transitive To veer a ship in a particular manner, when it is impracticable to tack.
BOXING
BOX'ING, participle present tense Inclosing in a box; striking with the fist; furnishing with a box.BOX'ING, noun The act of fighting with the fist; a combat with the fist.BOX'-...