Definition of bow

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Bow (v. t.) An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument..

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Steeve :: Steeve (v. i.) To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; -- said of the bowsprit, etc..
Taste :: Taste (v. t.) To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow..
Iris :: Iris (n.) An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors.
Colic :: Colic (a.) Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels.
Bobstay :: Bobstay (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.
Entrance :: Entrance (n.) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
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..
Passage :: Passage (v. i.) A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
Holster :: Holster (n.) A leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bow of his saddle..
Bower :: Bower (n.) One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
Bowel :: Bowel (n.) One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural..
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking..
Bowelless :: Bowelless (a.) Without pity.
Bow :: Bow (v. i.) To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down..
Bowlder :: Bowlder (n.) Alt. of Boulde.
Scrape :: Scrape (v. i.) To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
Foremast :: Foremast (n.) The mast nearest the bow.
Bowls :: Bowls (n. pl.) See Bowl, a ball, a game..
String :: String (n.) The line or cord of a bow.
Boweling :: Boweling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bowe.
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