bowe

n. [ OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F. boyau, fr. L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L. botulus sausage. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. Acts i. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

His soldiers . . . cried out amain,
And rushed into the bowels of the battle. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. “Thou thing of no bowels.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Offspring. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Boweled or Bowelled p. pr. & vb. n. Boweling or Bowelling. ] To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Written also bowelled. ] Having bowels; hollow. “The boweled cavern.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without pity. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From G.T. Bowen, who analyzed it in 1822. ] (Min.) A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bow, v. & n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who bows or bends. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers
Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Best bower,
Small bower. See the Note under Anchor. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the “Joker”) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bour, bur, room, dwelling, AS. būr, fr. the root of AS. būan to dwell; akin to Icel. būr chamber, storehouse, Sw. būr cage, Dan. buur, OHG. pūr room, G. bauer cage, bauer a peasant. √97 ] Cf.Boor, Byre. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me my lute in bed now as I lie,
And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. Shenstone. B. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess. [ 1913 Webster ]