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n. a large towel used to dry oneself after a bath. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bestowed p. pr. & vb. n. Bestowing. ] [ OE. bestowen; pref. be- + stow a place. See Stow. ] 1. To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. “He bestowed it in a pouch.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

See that the women are bestowed in safety. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some occupation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To expend, as money. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Empire is on us bestowed. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor. 1 Cor. xiii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To give in marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

I could have bestowed her upon a fine gentleman. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by a reflexive pronoun. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To give; grant; present; confer; accord. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of bestowing; disposal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that bestows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal. [ 1913 Webster ]

If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view. Chauncy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is given or bestowed. [ 1913 Webster ]

They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own bestowments. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Barbados. Population (2000) = 6, 700. [ PJC ]

n. A trawl; a boulter; the mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. n. The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the raised structure rising above the deck of a submarine. [ PJC ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Sierra Leone. Population (2000) = 1, 300, 000. [ PJC ]

n. the town (or city) where a person was born or grew up or has his principal residence; as, he never went back to his hometown again. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Bot.) The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chinese, knock head. ] Same as kowtow, the more common spellings. [ China ] [ Also spelled kowtow. ] S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Kotowed p. pr. & vb. n. Kotowing. ] 1. To perform the kotow. Now usually spelled kowtow. [ Also spelled kowtow. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To defer to another in a servile or humiliating manner; to act obsequiously. [ PJC ]

n. [ Chinese, knock head. ] The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground; same as Kotow. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings. [ China ] [ Also spelled kotow. ] S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Kowtowed p. pr. & vb. n. Kowtowing. ] To perform the kowtow. Same as Kotow [ 1913 Webster ]

I have salaamed and kowtowed to him. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To defer to another in a servile or humiliating manner; to act obsequiously.
Syn. -- kotow. [ PJC ]

[ It. martello hammer. The name was orig. given to towers erected on the coasts of Sicily and Sardinia for protection against the pirates in the time of Charles the Fifth, which prob. orig. contained an alarm bell to be struck with a hammer. See Martel. ] (Fort.) A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The English borrowed the name of the tower from Corsica in 1794. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Indian name. ] (Zool.) An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bestow improperly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of misbestowing. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. happening in or being of another town or city; as, an out-of-town tryout. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To soar too high. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tower over or above. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. rīp. harvest + a word of uncertain etymology. ] (Feud. Law) A gratuity given to tenants after they had reaped their lord's corn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stowed p. pr. & vb. n. Stowing. ] [ OE. stowen, fr. stowe a place, AS. stow; cf. Icel. eldstōa fireplace, hearth, OFries. stō, and E. stand. √163. ] 1. To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foul thief! where hast thou stowed my daughter? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or method of stowing; as, the stowage of provisions in a vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Room in which things may be stowed. Cook. [ 1913 Webster ]

In every vessel is stowage for immense treasures. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being stowed, or put away. “To have them in safe stowage.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Things stowed or packed. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Money paid for stowing goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A place into which rubbish is put. [ Written also stowbord. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) (a) A windlass. (b) A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Stour, a. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Stour, n. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. tow, AS. tow, akin to OD. touw, Icel. tō a tuft of wool for spinning; cf. E. taw, v. t. ] The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Towed p. pr. & vb. n. Towing. ] [ OE. towen, to&yogh_;en; akin to OFries. toga to pull about, OHG. zogōn, Icel. toga, AS. tohline a towline, and AS. teón to draw, p. p. getogen. See Tug. ] To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ Cf. Icel. taug a rope, from the same root as E. tow, v. t. ] 1. A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of towing, or the state of being towed; -- chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Tow, v..cf. F. touage. ] 1. The act of towing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The price paid for towing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A towel. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. &unr_;. See Toward, prep. ] 1. Approaching; coming near. “His toward peril.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Toward, a., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

He's towardly and will come on apace. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality or state of being toward. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } prep.[ AS. &unr_; impending, imminent, future, toward, &unr_; towards. See To, and -ward, wards. ] 1. In the direction of; to. [ 1913 Webster ]

He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

The waves make towards the pebbled shore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. [ 1913 Webster ]

His eye shall be evil toward his brother. Deut. xxviii. 54. [ 1913 Webster ]

Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men. Acts xxiv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of. [ 1913 Webster ]

This was the first alarm England received towards any trouble. Clarendom. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Near; about; approaching to. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am toward nine years older since I left you. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Near; at hand; in state of preparation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do you hear sught, sir, of a battle toward ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have a trifling foolish banquet Towards. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. & adv. See Toward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. towaille, towail, F. touaille, LL. toacula, of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. dwahila, swahilla, G. zwehle, fr. OHG. dwahan to wash; akin to D. dwaal a towel, AS. þweán to wash, OS. thwahan, Icel. þvā, Sw. två, Dan. toe, Goth. þwahan. Cf. Doily. ] A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath. [ 1913 Webster ]

Towel gourd (Bot.), the fruit of the cucurbitaceous plant Luffa Aegyptiaca; also, the plant itself. The fruit is very fibrous, and, when separated from its rind and seeds, is used as a sponge or towel. Called also Egyptian bath sponge, and dishcloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To beat with a stick. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc. [ Written also towelling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. tour, tor, tur, F. tour, L. turris; akin to Gr. &unr_;; cf. W. twr a tower, Ir. tor a castle, Gael. torr a tower, castle. Cf. Tor, Turret. ] 1. (Arch.) (a) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion. (b) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher. (c) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. Ps. lxi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lay trains of amorous intrigues
In towers, and curls, and periwigs. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. High flight; elevation. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gay Lussac's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the sulphuric acid process, to absorb (by means of concentrated acid) the spent nitrous fumes that they may be returned to the Glover's tower to be reemployed. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Glover's tower, below. --
Glover's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalytic, effect the conversion of sulphurous to sulphuric acid. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Gay Lussac's tower, above. --
Round tower. See under Round, a. --
Shot tower. See under Shot. --
Tower bastion (Fort.), a bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works. --
Tower mustard (Bot.), the cruciferous plant Arabis perfoliata. --
Tower of London, a collection of buildings in the eastern part of London, formerly containing a state prison, and now used as an arsenal and repository of various objects of public interest. [ 1913 Webster ]