BPage 239
- English Word Bowknot Definition A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
- English Word Bowl Definition A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
- English Word Bowl Definition Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
- English Word Bowl Definition The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
- English Word Bowl Definition The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
- English Word Bowl Definition A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.
- English Word Bowl Definition An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
- English Word Bowl Definition The game of tenpins or bowling.
- English Word Bowl Definition To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.
- English Word Bowl Definition To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.
- English Word Bowl Definition To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- English Word Bowl Definition To play with bowls.
- English Word Bowl Definition To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.
- English Word Bowl Definition To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.
- English Word Bowl-legged Definition Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward.
- English Word Bowlder Definition Alt. of Boulder
- English Word Bowldery Definition Characterized by bowlders.
- English Word Bowled Definition of Bowl
- English Word Bowleg Definition A crooked leg.
- English Word Bowler Definition One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
- English Word Bowless Definition Destitute of a bow.
- English Word Bowline Definition A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled.
- English Word Bowling Definition of Bowl
- English Word Bowling Definition The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
- English Word Bowls Definition See Bowl, a ball, a game.
- English Word Bowman Definition A man who uses a bow; an archer.
- English Word Bowman Definition The man who rows the foremost oar in a boat; the bow oar.
- English Word Bowmen Definition of Bowman
- English Word Bowne Definition To make ready; to prepare; to dress.
- English Word Bowse Definition To carouse; to bouse; to booze.