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A man who uses a bow; an archer. The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen. Jer. iv. 29. Bowman's root. (Bot.) See Indian physic, under Indian.

To make ready; to prepare; to dress. [Obs.] We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.

To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together.

The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.

ially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties). [Obs.] There were many bowssening places, for curing of mad men. . . . If there appeared small amendment he was bowssened again and again. Carew.

The string of a bow.

Furnished with bowstring.

See Boultel.

Onomatopoetic; as, the bowwow theory of language; a bowwow word. [Jocose.]

An archer; one who uses bow.

Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.

A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.

A crossbowman.[Obs.]

One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.

To disembowel. [R.] Spenser.

To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.

The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.

Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [Poetic] Bryant.

or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent. Her arms to the elbows naked. R. of Gloucester.