Definition of bow

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Bow (v. t.) The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.

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Iris :: Iris (n.) An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors.
Disembowel :: Disembowel (v. t.) To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider..
Tough :: Tough (superl.) Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow..
Ginglymus :: Ginglymus (n.) A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle..
Bellyache :: Bellyache (n.) Pain in the bowels; colic.
Bow :: Bow (n.) The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.
Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl..
Cope :: Cope (v. i.) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
Juke :: Juke (v. i.) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
Recognize :: Recognize (v. t.) To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like..
Bowhead :: Bowhead (n.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale..
Rumbowline :: Rumbowline (n.) Same as Rombowline.
Foresleeve :: Foresleeve (n.) The sleeve below the elbow.
Eventration :: Eventration (n.) The act af disemboweling.
Bow-compass :: Bow-compass (n.) A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other..
Imbower :: Imbower (v. t. & i.) See Embower.
Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart..
Clematis :: Clematis (n.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower..
Amia :: Amia (n.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin..
Bow-compasses :: Bow-compasses (pl. ) of Bow-compas.
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