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With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.

The bark of several trees, esp. of Bowdichia virgilioides of Brazil, used as a remedy for consumption; of Byrsonima crassifolia, used in tanning; of Alchornea latifolia, used medicinally; or of Quercus ilex, the cork tree.

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.

Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope.

A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

An order of ganoid fishes of which Amis is type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei.

k; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser.

The olecranon, or the elbow. Ancon sheep (Zoöl.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. "The olecranon on anconeal process." Flower.

A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

Elbowlike; anconal.

e entrance to an interior part. The mouth, the antechamber to the digestive canal. Todd & Bowman.

Gently opening the bowels; laxative. -- n.

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

A crossbowman. [Obs.] Speed.

A crossbow. See Arbalest.

ework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. Sir P. Sidney.

A curvature in the shape of a circular arc or an arch; as, the colored arc (the rainbow); the arc of Hadley's quadrant.

A bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.