English Dictionary: bower | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bower \Bow"er\, n. [OE. bour, bur, room, dwelling, AS. b[d4]r, fr. the root of AS. b[d4]an to dwell; akin to Icel. b[d4]r chamber, storehouse, Sw. b[d4]r cage, Dan. buur, OHG. p[d4]r room, G. bauer cage, bauer a peasant. [fb]97] Cf.{Boor}, {Byre}.] 1. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. --Gascoigne. 2. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. --Shenstone. B. Johnson. 3. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bower \Bo"wer\, n. [From {Bow}, v. & n.] 1. One who bows or bends. 2. (Naut.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. 3. 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}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bower \Bow"er\ (bou"[etil]r), n. [G. bauer a peasant. So called from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See {Boor}.] One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre. {Right bower}, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the [bd]Joker[b8]) in the game. {Left bower}, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value. {Best bower} or {Joker}, in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence of all others as the highest card. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bower \Bow"er\, v. t. To embower; to inclose. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bower \Bow"er\, n. [From {Bough}, cf. {Brancher}.] (Falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bower \Bow"er\, v. i. To lodge. [Obs.] --Spenser. |