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

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

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

called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower.

eing either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground. See Background, Foreground, and Middle-ground.

the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment. Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall. Chaucer. Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall:

With hands joined; hand in hand. Into their inmost bower, Handed they went. Milton.

olemnities. Till Hymen brought his love-delighted hour, There dwelt no joy in Eden's rosy bower. Campbell.

See Rest bower, under 2d Bower.

An open space between woods. Milton. "Orchard lawns and bowery hollows." Tennyson.

ver, that which is on the left hand of a person whose face is turned downstream. -- Left bower. See under 2d Bower. -- Left center, the members whose sympathies are, in the main, with the members of the Left, but who do not favor extreme courses, and on occasions vote with the government. They sit between the Center…

Made or consisting of oaks or of the wood of oaks. "In oaken bower." Milton. Oaken timber, wherewith to build ships. Bacon.

Lit., an arbor or bower; specif.: (Italian art)

To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock. "The pleached bower." Shak.

d adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink. Pluming her wings among the breezy bowers. W. Irving.

hands purpled with blood. When morn Purples the east. Milton. Reclining soft in blissful bowers, Purpled sweet with springing flowers. Fenton.

(Ranunculaceæ), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.

To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire. [Obs.] "To your bowers recoil." Spenser.

ormerly privileged to lecture in the schools. Regent bird (Zoöl.), a beautiful Australian bower bird (Sericulus melinus). The male has the head, neck, and large patches on the wings, bright golden yellow, and the rest of the plumage deep velvety black; -- so called in honor of the Prince of Wales (afterward George IV.)…

Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.