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One who, or that which, blows.

Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

One who borrows. Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Shak.

man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.

Having bowels; hollow. "The boweled cavern." Thomson.

Without pity. Sir T. Browne.

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

A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.

norhynchus violaceus or holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with brightcolored objects; the satin bird.

A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600º F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric ox…

Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.

Same as Bower. [Obs.]

Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne.

Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed.

One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.

Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.

An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable.

Spice clove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Cauliflower.

An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.