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Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship. "Bluff visages." Irving.

tumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity…

desty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own…

A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.

a universal affirmative. Baroko and Bocardo have been stumbling blocks to the logicians. Bowen.

A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

r, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart. Look that the crossbowmen lack not bolts. Sir W. Scott. A fool's bolt is soon shot. Shak.

See Bowsprit.

A rumbling or gurgling noise produced by wind in the bowels. Dunglison.

Same as Bowlder.

Characterized by bowlders.

One of the shafts of a clustered column. [Written also bowtel, boltel, boultell, etc.]

d line connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be taken together; thus, boll, bowl; or, in music, used to connect staves.

A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart. Chaucer.

The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.

An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.

inst a sand bank, or a rock or reef near the surface. The breakers were right beneath her bows. Longfellow.

orm of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten.