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The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest.

A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison.

Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope. "My soul hath elbowroom." Shak. Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom. W. G. Norris.

To bend like a bow; to curve. "Embowed arches." [Obs. or R.] Sir W. Scott. With gilded horns embowed like the moon. Spenser.

To disembowel. The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. Shak.

One who takes out the bowels. [Written also emboweller.]

Disembowelment.

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

To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

A nebulous arch, or bow, of white or yellowish light sometimes seen in fog, etc.

A white arc or circle in the sky attending frosty weather and formed by reflection of sunlight from ice crystals floating in the air; the parhelic circle whose center is at the zenith.

Having lofty arches. "The high-embowed roof." Milton.

To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow. "Imbowed windows." Bacon.

See Embowel.

See Embower.

act of imbowing; an arch; a vault. Bacon.

A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).

The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one. To draw the longbow, to tell large stories.

To excel in bowing. Young.

Convex; curved outward. "The convex or outbowed side of a vessel." Bp. Hall.