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ll, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.

The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W. (b) pl.

pl. Etym: [Prob. fr. AS. beáh ring, fr. b to bend. See 1st Bow.] (Naut.)

In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing. Abraham bowed down himself before the people. Gen. xxiii. 12. Wherewith shall I come before the Lord Micah vi. 6.

To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor. Dryden.

of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.

Pain in the bowels; colic.

; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.

ng curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow. [Obs.] Wilkins.

At the side of; on one side of. "Beside him hung his bow." Milton.

nify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton.

A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.

To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay. All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell. Milton.

A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

ttached to the end of a long staff. France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows end bills. Macaulay.

A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. Totten.

A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.

To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.

relating to birch. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower. Sir W. Scott.

The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.