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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Bower

Bow'er, n.

noun

(bou'er), n. [From bow.]

  1. One who bows or bends.
  2. (Naut.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
  3. (Anat.) A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm; an inflexor. [Obs.]

Rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates. Spenser.

Sense 4. [Ger. bauer, a peasant, from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards.] One of the two highest cards in the game of euchre.

Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card in the game.—Left bower, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the highest in value.

Bow'er, n.

noun

n. [A-S. bōr, bower, cottage, O. S. & Icel. bōr, Sw. bōr, Dan. buur, O. H. Ger. pûr, M. H. Ger. bûr, N. H. Ger. bauer, bed, cottage, from Goth. bauan, to dwell, A-S. būan. See Boor.] 1. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room. She led him up into a godly bower. Spenser. Give me my lute in bed as now I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. Gascoigne.

  1. A country-seat; a cottage; a shady recess. Shenstone. B. Jonson.
  2. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees bent and twined together; an arbor.

In shadier bower More sacred and sequestered, though but feigned, Pan or Sylvanus never slept. Milton.

Bow'er, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. To embower; to inclose.

Bow'er, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To lodge. [Obs.] Spenser: