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Puddening :: Puddening (n.) A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat..

Pillow :: Pillow (n.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.

Embowelled :: Embowelled () of Embowe.

Garbage :: Garbage (v. t.) To strip of the bowels; to clean.

Vireton :: Vireton (n.) An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying.

Weather :: Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc..

Deadwood :: Deadwood (n.) A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.

Cope :: Cope (v. i.) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.

Arrow :: Arrow (n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow..

Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

Token :: Token (n.) Something intended or supposed to represent or indicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah..

Bowfin :: Bowfin (n.) A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish..

Emboweler :: Emboweler (n.) One who takes out the bowels.

Gaffle :: Gaffle (n.) A lever to bend crossbows.

Costiveness :: Costiveness (n.) An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

Hernia :: Hernia (n.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture..

Tough :: Tough (superl.) Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow..

Prod :: Prod (n.) A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd..

Bloody Flux :: Bloody flux () The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood..

Pizzicato :: Pizzicato () A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.).

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