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Bowenite: Definition and part of speech

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Bowenite

  1. n. A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.

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.

Bower: Definition and part of speech

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Bower

  1. n. A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
  2. v. & n. One who bows or bends.
  3. v. & n. An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
  4. v. & n. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
  5. n. One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
  6. n. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady’s private apartment.
  7. n. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
  8. n. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
  9. v. t. To embower; to inclose.
  10. 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.

Bower bird: Definition and part of speech

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Bower bird

  1. An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus / holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects; the satin bird.

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.

Bow: Definition and part of speech

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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.