Bow

1. n. One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.
2. v. t. To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
3. v. t. To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
4. v. t. To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
5. v. t. To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.
6. v. t. To express by bowing; as, to bow one’s thanks.
7. v. i. To bend; to curve.
8. v. i. To stop.
9. v. i. To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; — often with down.
10. v. i. To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.
11. 1n. 1 One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.
12. 1v. t. 1 To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.