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A crooked leg. Jer. Taylor.

One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.

Destitute of a bow.

d used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled. Bowline bridles, the ropes by which the bowline is fastened to the leech of the sail. -- Bowline knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- On a bowline, close-hauled or sailing close to the wind; -- said of a ship.

The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New A…

See Bowl, a ball, a game.

Without shame. L. Addison.

A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from Cochin China (Anam).

also applied to the hood and garment together. What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl Pope.

Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk. "That cowled churchman." Emerson.

One who heals disease of cows; a cow doctor.

Healing the distemper of cows.

A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.

Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope.

A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons. Suckling.

To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. [Obs.] South.

One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.

Same as Dowle.

A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico. Shak.

Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. Shak. No feather, or dowle of a feather. De Quincey.