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Disembowelment.

To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [Written also imbower.] [Poetic] Milton. -- v. i.

Missouri; -- a nickname.

To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor.

To endow. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

To cover or deck with flowers. [Poetic] These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson.

To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. [R.] Thomson.

A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.

One who eschews.

See . Shenstone.

The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals.

Having a neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out. Youwatt.

d of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet. Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands. Shak.

An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept. [Enq.] Parker.

Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage. Pope.

Fallow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I…

Fain; glad; delighted. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed. [Obs.] Dr. Favour.

Fuel. [Obs.] Hooker.