bowery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bowery	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for bowery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bowery adj like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane" n a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bowery \Bow"ery\, a. Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery* maze that shades the purple streams. --Trumbull.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bowery \Bow"er*y\, n.; pl. {Boweries}. [D. bouwerij.] A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U.S.Hist.] The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into [bd]villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing.[b8] --Bancroft.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a. Characteristic of the street called the {Bowery}, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.