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To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness. Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. Prescott.

The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand. Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand. Spenser.

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The oar used by the bowman.

The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom. People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called cockneys. Murray's Handbook of London.

which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow- shaped spring, instead of by a joint.

Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward. Johnson.

Bow-compasses carrying a drawing pen. See Bow-compass.

Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil.

A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.

Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding. [Obs.]

One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney. Halliwell.

Bent, like a bow. Milton.

To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive.

f man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18.

Having bowels; hollow. "The boweled cavern." Thomson.

Without pity. Sir T. Browne.

A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.

One who bows or bends.

onorhynchus violaceus or holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with brightcolored objects; the satin bird.