Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bower"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bower \Bo"wer\, n. [From {Bow}, v. & n.]
1. One who bows or bends.

2. (Naut.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.

3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.]

His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were
wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.
--Spenser.

{Best bower}, {Small bower}. See {the Note under Anchor}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bower \Bow"er\ (bou"[~e]r), n. [G. bauer a peasant. So called
from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See
{Boor}.]
One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the
game of euchre.

{Right bower}, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card
(except the ``Joker'') in the game.

{Left bower}, the knave of the other suit of the same color
as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value.


{Best bower} or {Joker}, in some forms of euchre and some
other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack,
which takes precedence of all others as the highest card.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bower \Bow"er\, n. [OE. bour, bur, room, dwelling, AS. b[=u]r,
fr. the root of AS. b[=u]an to dwell; akin to Icel. b[=u]r
chamber, storehouse, Sw. b[=u]r cage, Dan. buur, OHG. p[=u]r
room, G. bauer cage, bauer a peasant. [root]97] Cf.{Boor},
{Byre}.]
1. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's
private apartment.

Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the
doors of mine unlucky bower. --Gascoigne.

2. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode
or retreat. --Shenstone. B. Johnson.

3. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs
of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a
shady recess.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bower \Bow"er\, v. t.
To embower; to inclose. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bower \Bow"er\, v. i.
To lodge. [Obs.] --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bower \Bow"er\, n. [From {Bough}, cf. {Brancher}.] (Falconry)
A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obs.]

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

bower
n : a framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor
provided a shady resting place in the park" [syn: {arbor},
{arbour}, {pergola}]
v : enclose in a bower [syn: {embower}]


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