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English Dictionary: bowing by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bowing
adj
  1. showing an excessively deferential manner [syn: bowed, bowing]
n
  1. bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting
    Synonym(s): bow, bowing, obeisance
  2. managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument; "the violinist's bowing was excellent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bow \Bow\ (bou), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Bowing}.] [OE. bowen, bogen, bugen, AS. b[d4]gan (generally
      v. i.); akin to D. buigen, OHG. biogan, G. biegen, beugen,
      Icel. boginn bent, beygja to bend, Sw. b[94]ja, Dan. b[94]ie,
      bugne, Coth. biugan; also to L. fugere to flee, Gr. [?], and
      Skr. bhuj to bend. [root]88. Cf. {Fugitive}.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to
            bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
  
                     Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
                     Not to bow and bias their opinions.   --Fuller.
  
      3. To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of
            respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
  
                     They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the
                     ground before him.                              --2 Kings ii.
                                                                              15.
  
      4. To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;[?] to
            crush; to subdue.
  
                     Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      5. To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bow \Bow\ (b[d3]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bowed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Bowing}.]
      To play (music) with a bow. -- v. i. To manage the bow.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bowing \Bow"ing\, n. (Mus.)
      1. The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed
            instruments.
  
                     Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of
                     the violinist, the violist, etc.         --J. W. Moore.
  
      2. In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and
            distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare
            it for felting.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Bowing
      a mode of showing respect. Abraham "bowed himself to the people
      of the land" (Gen. 23:7); so Jacob to Esau (Gen. 33:3); and the
      brethren of Joseph before him as the governor of the land (Gen.
      43:28). Bowing is also frequently mentioned as an act of
      adoration to idols (Josh. 23:7; 2 Kings 5:18; Judg. 2:19; Isa.
      44:15), and to God (Josh. 5:14; Ps. 22:29; 72:9; Micah 6:6; Ps.
      95:6; Eph. 3:14).
     
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