bowel 
What the plague, have yon no bott'da for your own kin- 
dred? filii'rittan, School for Scandal, iii. .'f. 
5f. pl- Offspring; children. 
Thine own bowel*, which do call thee sire, 
The mere effusion of thy proper loins. 
Shale., M. for M., iii. 1. 
To move the bowels, to produce evacuation of the 
bowels by administering a suitable aperient or cathartic. 
bowelt (bou' el), v. t.; pret. and pp. boweled or 
646 
are the knave of trumps, the higher of the two, called the 
rniht IKHIVI; and the knave of the suit having the same color 
as' the trump, called the left bower. 
But the hands that were played 
By that heathen Chinee, 
And the points that he made, 
Were quite frightful to see 
Till at last he put down a right bower, 
Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. 
JUWOAT ^wvn *3ij, v. t. , ^i^u. i'ii'i !'[' v\rKj\jmj VM. ftret Harte, Heathen Chinee. 
bowellerl, ppr. boweling or bowelling. [< ME. bower7 (i,6'er), n. [< 6oc 2 , n. and r., + -er*. 
bowelen; cf. OF. boeler; from the noun.] lo cf bou .,. ( . r n lf A bow-maker; a bowyer. 
take out the bowels of; eviscerate; penetrate 2 O ne'who plays with a bow on a violin or 
the bowels of; disembowel. 
Drawn and hanged in his armour, taken down alive and 
boivelled. Stou', Edward II., an. 1326. 
bowellesst (bou'el-les), a. [< bowel + -less.] 
Without tenderness or pity ; unfeeling. 
Miserable men commiserate not themselves ; bowelleKS 
unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels. 
Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., i. 7. 
bowel 
tises 
animals. Holland. 
other stringed instrument. 
lower 8 (bo'er or bou'er), n. [Also written 
boocr ; < bow&, a head of cattle, farm-stock, + 
-er 1 .] A person who rents or leases the dairy 
stock on a farm, together with pasture and fod- 
der for them, and makes what he can from 
their produce, the cultivation of the farm still 
[S. 
, f remaining with the farmer or proprietor. 
>wel-pryert (bou'el-pn'to), One who prac- w _ count | es of Scotland.] 
ises divination by examining the intestines of T, ower _ anc hor (bou'er-ang"kor), w. An ai 
An anchor 
See bower 3 . 
era Ptilonorhynchus, Chlamydodera, etc., consti- 
carried at a ship's bows. ^^ . -. 
bowel-pryingt (bou el-pn'mg), . Divination t, ower Jbird (bou'er-berd), . The name of the 
by examining the bowels of animals. Holland. Australian oscine passerine birds of the gen- 
bowemte (bo en -it), n. [Alter George T. ,.,,,, 
Bowen, who described it in 1822.] A variety 
of serpentine from Smithfield, Rhode Island, 
of light-green color and fine granular texture. 
It is remarkable for its hardness and its re- 
semblance to jade. 
bower 1 (bou'er), n. [Early mod. E. also bour, 
boure, etc. ; < ME. bour, < AS. bur, a dwell- 
ing, house, room, chamber (= OS. bur MLG. 
bur, a house, cage, LG. buur, a cage, = OHG. 
bur, a chamber, MHG. bur, G. bauer, a cage, 
= Icel. bur, a chamber, larder, store-room, = 
Sw. bur = Dan. bur, formerly buur), < bium = 
Icel. bua, etc., dwell. Cf. booth, bottle 1 , build, 
etc., from the same root. Hence ult. boor, 
bowvrS, and neigh-bour, neiglt-bor."] 1. A dwell- 
ing or habitation; particularly, a cottage; an 
unpretentious residence ; a rustic abode. [Now 
only poetical.] 
Courtesy oft-times in simple bowers 
Is found as great as in the stately towers. 
Sir J. Harinaton, tr. of Ariosto, xiv. 62. 
2f. An inner room; any room in a house ex- 
cept the hall or public room; hence, a bed- 
chamber. 
In hast came rushing forth from inner liuwre. 
Spenser, . Q., I. viii. 5. 
3. Especially, a lady's private chamber; a bou- 
doir. [Poetical.] 
The feast was over in Branksome tower, 
And the Ladye had gone to her secret bower. 
Scott, L. of L. M., i. 1. 
4. A shelter made with boughs or twining 
plants ; an arbor ; a shady recess. 
bow-knot 
bow-fast (bou'fast), . Naut., a rope or chain 
by which a ship is secured at the bow. 
bow-file (bo'fil), n. A file having a bowed or 
curved edge ; a riffler. 
bowfin (bou'fin), n. A name of the mudfish, 
Amia cah-a. Also called brindle, grindle, law- 
yer, dogfish, etc. See cut under Amiida?. 
b'owget, ''. See bouge%. 
bow-grace (bou'gras), n. Ncmt., a frame, or 
composition of junk, laid out at the sides, stem, 
or bows of a ship to secure it from injury by ice. 
bow-hand (bo'hand), n. 1. In archery, the 
hand that holds the bow, commonly the left 
hand. 2. In music, the hand that draws the 
bow ; a violinist's right hand On the bow-hand, 
(rt) On the wrong side ; wrongly ; inaccurately. 
He shootes wyde on the bom hand, and very farre from 
the marke. Spemer, State of Ireland. 
(/>) Wrong in one's calculations. 
Uber. Well, you must have this wench, then 1 
Ric. I hope so ; 
I am much o' the bom-hand else. 
Bean, and Fl., Coxcomb, i. 3. 
bow-harpsichord (bd'harp'si-kord), n. Same 
as boir-clarifr. 
bow-head (bo'hed), . A species of right 
whale ; the polar right whale or Greenland 
whale, Balcena, mysticetus. See also cut under 
whale. 
bow-headed (bo'hed-ed), a. Having a bowed 
or bent head, as a right whale. 
bowie (bou'i), 11. [Perhaps from OF. btiie, prob. 
same as buire, a water-pitcher, vessel for wine, 
< bitire, F. boire, < L. biberc, drink.] A large 
wooden milk-bowl. [Scotch.] 
bowie-knife (bo'e-nif; in the Southwest pro- 
nounced bo'e-nif), n. [After its inventor, 
Colonel James Bowie, died 1836.] A heavy 
sheath-knife first used in the early part of the 
present century in Kentucky and other parts of 
the United States which were then on the bor- 
ders of civilization. The blade is from 9 to 10 inches 
long, and has only oue edge ; the back is straight for three 
Satin Bower-bird (Ptilonorhynchits holosericfvs}. 
tuting with some authors a subfamily Ptilono- 
rliyneliina, of the family Oriolida;. They are re- 
markable for building what are called bowers, runs, or play- 
houses, which they adorn with gay feathers, rags, bones, 
shells, and other white, bright, or conspicuous objects. 
There are several species of both the genera named ; the 
best-known are the satin bower-bird, P. holoseric 
, ceiut, and 
the spotted bower-bird, C, maculata. The bowers are not 
the nests of the birds, but places of resort where they 
amuse themselves. 
bower-eaves (bou'er-evz), n. pi. The eaves of 
a bower or bedchamber. 
A bow-shot from her bower-eave*. 
Tmnijmn, Lady of Shalott, iii. 
I only begged a little woodbine bower 
Where I might sit and weep. 
W. Mason, English Garden, 3. 
bower 1 ! (bou'er), r. [< bowerl, .] I. tra-tig. bowered (bou'erd), a. [< Sower 1 + -ef? 2 .] Fur- 
To inclose in a bower, or as in a bower ; em- nished with bowers, recesses, or alcoves. Ten- 
bower; inclose. 
O nature ! what hadst thou to do in hell, 
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend 
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh ? i/V, *i^i /T^,,'A rr.nA\ 
Shak., R. and J., iii. 2. DOWer-maid Jbqu er-mad), 
II. intrans. To take shelter ; lodge. 
Spredding pavilions for the birds to bovfre. 
Spenser, . Q., VI. x. 6. 
nysoit. 
bowerly (bou'er-li), a. [See burly!-.] 
stout ; burly. [Prov. Eng.] 
"_ ~ n.. [< boweri + 
maid. Cf. ME. bourmaiden.] A young woman 
in attendance on a lady ; a lady's-maid ; a wait- 
ing-woman. [Now only poetical.] 
On who bower-thane (bou'er-than), n. [Mod. form of 
ME. burtheiti, < AS. bur-thegn, < bur, bower, 
+ thegn, thane.] A chamberlain under the 
Saxon kings. 
The chamberlain, or bower-thane, was also the royal 
treasurer. Thorite, tr. of Lappeuberg's Hist. Eng., v. 
bower 2 (bou'er), . [< ftoic 1 + 
or that which bows or bends ; specifically, a 
muscle that bends the joints. 
His rawbone annes, whose mighty brawned bowrs 
Were wont to rive steele plates. Spenser, . Q., I. viii. 41. 
bower 3 (bou'er). n. [< 6oic 3 + -eel.] An an- , 
chor carried at the bow of a ship. The two bower- bower-woman (bou er-wum"an), . Same as 
anchors were formerly of unequal size, and were called 
the best and small bower respectively ; but when (as gen- 
erally now) of equal size, they are known as the starboard 
and port bowers. 
bower-maid. Scott. 
bowery 1 (bou'er-i), a. [< ftOM-er 1 + -yi.] Of 
the nature of a bower; containing bowers; 
leafy; shady. 
The whaler . . . made a clumsy piece of work in get- v n TiroTTT2 rhoii'tr il r.1 linirprirs I \i\ TAlsn 
ting her anchor, being obliged to let go her best bower, DOWery^OOU 61-1), M., pi. DOlieneS (-1Z). \_A18O 
and, ttimlly, to get out a kedge and a hawser. written bowerie and bouwery ; < D. bouwery, a 
A H. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 250. 
bower 4 (bou'er), H. [< boifS, I, = boiir/lil, 
+ -er 1 .] In falconry, a young hawk when it 
begins to leave the nest and to clamber on the 
boughs. Also called bowess, bowet. 
bower 5 t, [Late ME. boueer, < D. bouwer, a 
farmer, peasant (in this sense prop, boer), also 
a builder, = G bauer, a, peasant, also a builder : , ,..,... . .,, 
see boor, and cf. boicer.] A peasant ; a farmer, public by his talent at dreaming. 
bower 6 (bou'er), n. [E. spelling of G. bauer, a -f'"! 
peasant, a farmer ; in a German pack of cards, bowess, bowet 1 (bou'es, -et), n. [See bower*.] 
the knave or jack ; = D. boer, a farmer, the In falconry, a young hawk when it begins to 
knave in cards, > E. boor, q. v.] In euchre, leave the nest. 
one of the two highest cards, or, if the joker bowet 1 (bou'et), n. See bowess. 
is used, the second or third highest. Tin. bowers bowet a (b6't), 11. Same as buat. 
farm, prop, fanning, husbandry, < bouwer, a 
farmer: see bowei'5 and boor.] Among the 
Dutch settlers of New York, a farm ; a country- 
seat; a rural retreat. Hence the name of the Boicerii. 
a long, wide street in the city of New York, originally a 
road through the bowery or farm of Peter Stuyvesant, the 
last Dutch colonial governor of New Netherlands. 
A goodly boH'erie or farm was allotted to the sage Oloffe 
in fMUMderation of the service he had rendered to the 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 133. 
Bowie-knife and Sheath. 
quarters of its length, and then curves toward the edge in 
a slightly concave sweep, while the edge finishes toward 
the point in a convex curve. The guard is very small, 
and the tongue is of the full breadth of the grip or barrel, 
which is formed of two rounded pieces of wood or bone. 
The best knives were made by frontier blacksmiths, of old 
horse-rasps and the like, and naturally differed much in 
size and pattern. The term is used at present for almost 
any large sheath-knife. 
bowing 1 (bo'ing), H. [Verbal n. of 6ow 2 , .] 1. 
The operation of separating and arranging as 
desired the filaments of some fibrous material, 
as hatters' fur or (in Eastern countries) cotton, 
by vibrating a bow-string upon it. In hat-making, 
Ijarge ; as practised on a small scale, the felting of the fur or wool 
is partly accomplished by bowing. 
2. In music: (a) The general method of using 
the bow in playing upon an instrument of the 
violin family. It includes the method of holding the 
bow, the direction in which it is moved, the pressure put 
upon it, the part of the hair that is employed, the place 
upon the strings where it is applied, and every other detail 
in the management of the bow which influences the quality 
and loudness of the tone produced. (6) The method by 
which the notes of a given passage are distrib- 
uted between up- and down-strokes of the bow. 
To secure an intended effect, or general uniformity among 
many players, the bmmnii of a passage is indicated by vari- 
ous marks; r-i or < ' indicates a stroke beginning with 
the nut, that is, down ; while y or ^ indicates a stroke 
beginning with the iwint, that is, up. 
bowing'-* (bo'ing), n. [< 6o-5, M., + -iwp 1 .] A 
lease of the dairy stock on a farm. See bower 6 . 
[Scotch.] 
bowingly (bou'ing-li), adv. In a bending man- 
ner. Hiiloet. 
bow-instrument (bo'In'stro-ment), n. A 
stringed instrument played by means of a bow, 
as the double-bass, the small bass or violon- 
cello, the tenor, the violin proper, etc. 
bow-iron (bo'i"ern), . A clasp or holder used 
to secure the bows of a carriage-top. 
bowk 1 (bouk), 11. Same as bulk 1 . [Scotch.] 
bowk- (bouk), r. t. Same as btictf. [Scotch.] 
bow-kail (bou'kal), . [Cf. borecole.] Cab- 
bage. Burns. [Scotch.] 
bowking (bou'king), n. Same as biiel'iini-. 
bow-knot (bo'not), n. A slip-knot made by 
drawing a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., in the 
form of a bow through an involution, which is 
