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Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion. Shak.

See Dower.

Having a gloomy look.

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

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 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.

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

An umbelliferous Australian flower (Actinotus helianthi), often erroneously thought to be composite. The involucre looks as if cut out of white flannel.

imp. pl. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.

organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blos…

Florida; -- a nickname, alluding to sense of L. floridus, from florida flowery. See Florid.

A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.

(Poinciana, or Cæsalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Baird.

A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus).

State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general. Tennyson.