n. [ OE. avowe, F. avoué, fr. L. advocatus. See Advocate, Avowee, Avoyer. ] One who has an advowson. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>adv. By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An approver or abettor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who allows or permits. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having full power over all aspects of a situation.
Syn. -- almighty, omnipotent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted. -- A*vow"ed*ly adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ F. avoué. Cf. Advowee, Advocate, n. ] The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who avows or asserts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. [ OE. bitelbrowed; cf. OE. bitel, adj., sharp, projecting, n., a beetle. See Beetle an insect. ] Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The earlier meaning was, “Having bushy or overhanging eyebrows.” [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers. Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell-shaped flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bellefleur, lit., beautiful flower. ] A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple. [ Written also bellefleur. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, bellows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that bestows. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the color of the flower. ] (Bot.) A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of Hæmanthus toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, blows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A braggart, or loud talker. [ Slang ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. [ Low ] Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Built with the stem nearly straight up and down. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who borrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. bent over; -- used of back or head.
Syn. -- bent, inclined. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Music) sounded by stroking with a bow; -- of a stringed musical instrument; as, bowed instruments. Contrasted with plucked. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. resembling an arch.
Syn. -- arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. same as bow-legged.
Syn. -- bandy, bandy-legged, bowleg, bowlegged. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. submitting to the authority of another.
Syn. -- bowing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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 ]

v. t. To embower; to inclose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lodge. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bough, cf. Brancher. ] (Falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Metal.) A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600° F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric oxide (Fe2O3) and the subsequent change of this in a reduced atmosphere to the magnetic oxide (Fe2O4). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Zool.) An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus or Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus), allied to the starling. The male constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects to attract females; the satin bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied to other related birds of the same region, having similar habits; as, the spotted bower bird (Chalmydodera maculata), and the regent bird (Sericulus melinus). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. (Falconry) Same as Bower. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. mental ability; intellectual acuity.
Syn. -- brain, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) a brow; -- used in composition; as, dark-browed, stern-browed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus.
Syn. -- buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (Photom.) luminous intensity; illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, measured in candelas, referring to the light of a standard candle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. choufleur, modified by E. Cole. L. caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L. caulis stalk, cabbage, and fleur flower is fr. L. flos flower. See Cole, and Flower. ] 1. (Bot.) An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage, of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The edible head or “curd” of a cauliflower plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an erect or decumbent Old World perennial (Malva sylvestris) with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced into the U. S.
Syn. -- tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, Malva sylvestris. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an erect perennial of eastern and southern U. S. (Asclepias tuberosa) having showy orange flowers.
Syn. -- butterfly weed, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root, Indian paintbrush, Asclepias tuberosa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See 3d Clove, and Gillyflower. ] Spice clove. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cauliflower. [ 1913 Webster ]