Webster's Dictionary 1913

4294

Bow-saw

Bow″–saw′ (�), n. A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.

4295

Bowable

Bow″a‐ble (�), a. Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.

4296

Bowbell

Bow″bell′ (�), n. One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney. Halliwell.

4297

Bowbent

Bow″bent′ (�), a. Bent, like a bow. Milton.

4298

Bowdlerize

Bowd″ler‐ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Bowdlerized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Bowdlerizing (?).] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of S...

4299

Bowel

Bow″el (?), n. [OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F. boyau, fr. L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L. botulus sausage.]1. One of the intestines of an ...

4300

Bowel (2)

Bow″el, 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.

4301

Boweled

Bow″eled (�), a. [Written also bowelled.] Having bowels; hollow. “The boweled cavern.” Thomson.

4302

Bowelless

Bow″el‐less, a. Without pity. Sir T. Browne.

4303

Bowenite

Bow″en‐ite (�), 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.

4304

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.His rawbone arms, whose ...

4305

Bower (2)

Bow″er (bou″ẽr), 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 th...

4306

Bower (3)

Bow″er, 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 ca...

4307

Bower (4)

Bow″er, v. t. To embower; to inclose. Shak.

4308

Bower (5)

Bow″er, v. i. To lodge. Spenser.

4309

Bower (6)

Bow″er, n. [From Bough, cf. Brancher.] (Falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

4310

Bower bird

Bow″er bird′ (�). (Zoöl.) An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus orholosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and deco...

4311

Bower-Barff process

Bow″er–Barff″ proc′ess. (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 corrosi...

4312

Bowery

Bow″er‐y (�), a. Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.Trumbull.

4313

Bowery (2)

Bow″er‐y, n.; pl.Boweries (�). [D. bouwerij.] A farm or plantation with its buildings.The emigrants were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode ...

4314

Bowery (3)

Bow″er‐y, a. Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

4315

Bowess

Bow″ess (�), n.(Falconry) Same as Bower.

4316

Bowfin

Bow″fin′ (�), n.(Zoöl.) A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; — called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

4317

Bowge

Bowge (�), v. i. To swell out. See Bouge.

4318

Bowge (2)

Bowge, v. t. To cause to leak. See Bouge.

4319

Bowgrace

Bow″grace′ (�), n.(Naut.) 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.

4320

Bowhead

Bow″head′ (�), n.(Zoöl.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balæna mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.