Bower
- n. A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- v. & n. One who bows or bends.
- v. & n. An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
- v. & n. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
- n. One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
- n. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady’s private apartment.
- n. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
- n. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
- v. t. To embower; to inclose.
- v. i. To lodge.
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.