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n.; pl. Boweries [ D. bouwerij. ] A farm or plantation with its buildings. [ U. S. Hist. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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 “villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing.” Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Dower. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. [ From Ewer. ] An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept. [ Enq. ] Parker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The flowery kingdom, China. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dressed with garlands of flowers. [ Poetic & Rare ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. “Colors of the showery arch.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A place where skins are tawed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having towers; adorned or defended by towers. [ R. ] “Towery cities.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]