Bower
['baʊə] or ['baʊɚ]
Definition
(v. & n.) One who bows or bends.
(v. & n.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
(v. & n.) A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
(n.) One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
(n.) Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
(n.) A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
(n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
(v. t.) To embower; to inclose.
(v. i.) To lodge.
(n.) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
Editor: Warren
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Arbor, shady recess, shady retreat.
Typed by Lesley
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Shady_recess, arbor, retreat, alcove
ANT:Open_place
Checker: Sigmund
Definition
n. a shady enclosure or recess in a garden an arbour: an inner apartment esp. the private room of a lady a boudoir.—n. Bow′er-bird an Australian bird of the Starling family remarkable for its habit of making bower-like erections ornamented with gay feathers shells &c.—adj. Bow′ery containing bowers: shady.
n. the name in euchre for the two highest cards the knave of trumps and the other knave of the same colour the right and left bower respectively.
Typist: Robbie
Unserious Contents or Definition
A shady retreat, in general.
Inputed by Dustin
Examples
- When they had finished their breakfast Tarzan went to her bower and recovered his knife. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- This is a charming spot, is the Bower, but you must get to apprechiate it by degrees. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He had again been gathering fruit and this he laid at the entrance of her bower. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He removed his hunting knife from its sheath and handed it to her hilt first, again motioning her into the bower. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Oh, won't you, won't you, won't you, won't you, come to the Bower? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Boffin's Bower is the name Mrs Boffin christened it when we come into it as a property. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There are no fish of the shark tribe in the Bower waters? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is quite a bower in the summer-time. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I am banished to the Bower, to be found in it like a piece of furniture whenever wanted. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Wouldn't you like to see the Bower, and know a retired literary man of the name of Wegg that lives there--WITH a wooden leg? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It should be strewn with roses; it should lie through bowers, where there was no spring, autumn, nor winter, but perpetual summer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Bowers, saw what he took to be a man seated on the ground and leaning against the stump, listening to the conversation between Meade and myself. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The best known of the latter type is the Bowers hydraulic dredge, covered by many patents, of which Nos. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Richard