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Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.

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.

In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.

The millionth part of one weber.

A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).

A kind of morning glory (Ipomoea Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.

See 4th Mow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.

One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.

The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday.

Knotted; tied in a knot, as a serpent.

Christmas; also, a shout of joy at Christmas for the birth of the Savior. [Obs.]

The marriage knot. [Obs.] Crashaw.

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

To excel in power; to overpover. [Obs.] Fuller.

To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes. "And overpower'd that gallant few." Wordsworth.

Excelling in power; too powerful; irresistible. -- O`ver*pow"er*ing*ly, adv.

One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.

To tower over or above.

Provided with a pillow or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow. Pillowedon buckler cold and hard. Sir W. Scott.