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One that bestows.

The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal. If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view. Chauncy.

A trawl; a boulter; the mod

The shotproof pilot house of a war vessel.

oisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.

There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings. [China]kowtow S. W. Williams.

The same as Kotow. I have salaamed and kowtowed to him. H. James.

A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.

An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.

To bestow improperly.

The act of misbestowing.

To tower over or above.

A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn. [Obs.]

e in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides. Dryden.

The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel.

One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.

A place into which rubbish is put. [Written also stowbord.]

A windlass.

A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.

See Stour, a. [Obs.]