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Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.

To take leave with the customary civilities; to bow or courtesy.

A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faces; costiveness.

Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.

fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

up. [Obs.] The ends of the fragment . . . will not yield to the convellent force. Todd & Bowman.

usness; ease; accommodation. Thus necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow chairs. Cowper. We are rather intent upon the end of God's glory than our own conveniency. Jer. Taylor.

To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow. [Obs.] Some bending down and coping to ward the earth. Holland.

A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.

Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.

Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country. She, bowing herself towards him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, spake in her country language. 2 Macc. vii. 27.

To bend; to stop; to bow. [Obs.] Then I courbed on my knees. Piers Plowman.

o make a respectful salutation or movement of respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with bending of the knes.

bs.] A wiser generation, who have the art to coy the fonder sort into their nets. Bp. Rainbow.

A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste. When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl. Shak.

Having the form of a shallow bowl; -- said of a corolla.

be introduced to him. R. B. Kimball. Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone. -- Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made…

g, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous. "Creamy bowis." Collins. "Lines of creamy spray." Tennyson. "Your creamy words but cozen." Beau & Fl.