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ious forms (often approximately hemisherical), to hold liquids, etc. Brought them food in bowls of basswood. Longfellow.

ded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift. Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders. -- Bowlder wall, a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders.

Characterized by bowlders.

A crooked leg. Jer. Taylor.

One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.

Destitute of a bow.

nd used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled. Bowline bridles, the ropes by which the bowline is fastened to the leech of the sail. -- Bowline knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- On a bowline, close-hauled or sailing close to the wind; -- said of a ship.

The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New A…

See Bowl, a ball, a game.

To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear. [Written also rumbowline.]

Same as Rombowline.

The men in the starboard watch. [Obs.] R. H. Dana, Jr.

A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.

A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.

Elbowlike; anconal.

Silver plate or vessels. [Obs.] Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.

The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.

To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor. Dryden.

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.