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Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

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

Pledge; borrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.

The style of Boswell.

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.

orhynchus 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.

One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.

A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.

derly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.

A small white-flowered herb (Samolus Valerandi) found usually in wet places; water pimpernel.

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