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A long, stout fishing line to which many hooks are attached.

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness. Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. Prescott.

dom. People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called cockneys. Murray's Handbook of London.

Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward. Johnson.

To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.

A crooked leg. Jer. Taylor.

A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

ed kettle or pan. A braising kettle has a deep cover which holds coals; consequently the cooking is done from above, as well as below. Mrs. Henderson.

ke a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones. Where the brook brawls along the painful road. Wordsworth.

To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

h, or the act of whipping on the breech. I view the prince with Aristarchus' eyes, Whose looks were as a breeching to a boy. Marlowe.

An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland.

To boil or seethe; to cook. [Obs.]

A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

With lively intelligence; intelligently. Looking brightly into the mother's face. Hawthorne.

To bring down. (a) To cause to come down. (b) To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks. -- To bring down the house, to cause tremendous applause. [Colloq.] -- To bring forth. (a) To produce, as young fruit. (b) To bring to light; to make manifest. -- To bring forward (a) To exhibit; to introduce; to produce t…

A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves; a pamphlet.

To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

One who broils, or cooks by broiling.

To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. W. Irving.