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A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.

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.

A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600º F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric ox…

Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.

A crossbowman.[Obs.]

Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [Poetic] Bryant.

To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [Written also imbower.] [Poetic] Milton. -- v. i.

See Embower.

A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).

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

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

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

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

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…

Same as Bower. [Obs.]

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

unded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding. Bower cable, the cable belonging to the bower anchor. -- Cable road, a railway on which the cars are moved by a continuously running endless rope operated by a stationary motor. -- Cable's length, the length of a ship's cable. C…

bers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.

Shut fast; closed; tight; as, a close box. From a close bower this dainty music flowed. Dryden.

with the myrtle sprays Adorns his crisped tresses. Drayton. Along the crisped shades and bowers. Milton. The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. Milton.