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Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.

A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

y must drive his ball in order to gain a point. Chase gun (Naut.), a cannon placed at the bow or stern of an armed vessel, and used when pursuing an enemy, or in defending the vessel when pursued. -- Chase port (Naut.), a porthole from which a chase gun is fired. -- Stern chase (Naut.), a chase in which the pursuing…

Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.

ece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.

an or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson.

The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

ii. 6. The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover. Byron. Bowlder clay. See under Bowlder. -- Brick clay, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned. -- Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate. -- Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consistin…

bers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.

A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing. -- Clip"per-built` (, a.

Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box. From a close bower this dainty music flowed. Dryden.

ion of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13.

The notch of an arrow or crossbow.

Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. Milton.

ged; dyed; painted; stained. The lime rod, colored as the glede. Chaucer. The colored rainbow arched wide. Spenser.

A movable sink for a wash bowl, with closet.

card is divided into thirty-two points, called also rhumbs, and the glass-covered box or bowl containing it is suspended in gimbals within the binnacle, in order to preserve its horizontal position. -- Surveyor's compass, an instrument used in surveying for measuring horizontal angles. See Circumferentor. -- Variati…

An ailment or disease of the body. One in a complaint of his bowels. Arbuthnot.