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A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.

Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction. "Delightful bowers." Spenser. "Delightful fruit." Milton.

e, or a ball. Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears. Sidney. An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward. Sir W. Scott.

or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

A bower; a dingle. [Obs.] Drayton.

A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.

Able to be directed; manageable. [Obs.] Swords and bows Directive by the limbs. Shak.

To disturb the functions of; to disorder. It disaffects the bowels. Hammond.

ile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against…

To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.] As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser.

A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table. She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. Judg. v. 25.

Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations. "Dispensatory power." Bp. Rainbow.

s; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner. He passed me with a distant bow. Goldsmith.

The bowfin (Amia calva). See Bowfin.

able), destructive to beans. -- Dolphin striker (Naut.), a short vertical spar under the bowsprit.

The drawing of a bowstring. [Obs.] She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught. Spenser.

To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal. In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe. King.

ves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea. Bow drill, Breast drill. See under Bow, Breast. -- Cotter drill, or Traverse drill, a machine tool for drilling slots. -- Diamond drill. See under Diamond. -- Drill jig. See under Jig. -- Drill pin, the pin in a lock which ent…

with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. Spenser. The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room. Thackeray.

To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion. " Will duck his head aside. Swift.