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A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseæ). Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia Australis).…

The left-hand side of a ship to one on board facing toward the bow; port; -- opposed to Ant: starboard.

A crossbow. [Obs.] Wright.

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

The bowfin (Amia calva).

Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

p or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky. Wordsworth.

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…

A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing. [Obs.] He that will give a cap and make a leg in thanks for a favor he never received. Fuller.

resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks.

o direct. Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall, leveled a quarrel out of a crossbow. Stow.

engines of river steamboats. -- Lifting sail (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.

-- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope.

vessel which was used in changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind.

Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. Locke.

The roundest part of a ship's bow.

A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix. Totten.

There is a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. Shak. Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm. Tennyson.

A large drinking bowl; -- originally made of maple. [Obs.] Their brimful mazers to the feasting bring. Drayton.

r eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble. "Of mean parentage." Sir P. Sidney. The mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself. Is. ii. 9.