Definition of bow

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Bow (v. i.) To bend; to curve.

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Relax :: Relax (n.) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels..
Over :: Over (n.) A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behind the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places..
Belly :: Belly (n.) That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen..
Circumnutation :: Circumnutation (n.) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants..
High-embowed :: High-embowed (a.) Having lofty arches.
Eviscerate :: Eviscerate (v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.
Crepitus :: Crepitus (n.) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.
Bowl :: Bowl (v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along..
Bumkin :: Bumkin (n.) A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen..
Bluff-bowed :: Bluff-bowed (a.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
Ribaudequin :: Ribaudequin (n.) A huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins.
Jerk :: "Jerk (v. t.) To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off..
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..
Nod :: Nod (v. i.) To incline the head with a quick motion; to make a slight bow; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness, with the head; as, to nod at one..
Housing :: Housing (n.) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
Emboweler :: Emboweler (n.) One who takes out the bowels.
Wolf :: Wolf (a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale..
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc..
Stump :: Stump (n.) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket..
Cubit :: Cubit (n.) A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger..
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