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  • English Word Bowelless Definition Without pity.
  • English Word Bowelling Definition of Bowel
  • English Word Bowenite Definition A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.
  • English Word Bower Definition One who bows or bends.
  • English Word Bower Definition An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
  • English Word Bower Definition A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
  • English Word Bower Definition One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
  • English Word Bower Definition Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
  • English Word Bower Definition A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
  • English Word Bower Definition A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
  • 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.