Part 1319

<i>Totten.</i> </cs>

<h1>Bowable</h1> <Xpage=171>

<hw>Bow"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Bowbell</h1> <Xpage=171>

<hw>Bow"bell`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney.</def>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Bow-bells</h1> <Xpage=171>

<hw>Bow"-bells`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <def>The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom.</def>

<blockquote>People born within the sound of <b>Bow-bells</b> are usually called cockneys. <i>Murray's Handbook of London.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bowbent</h1> <Xpage=171>

<hw>Bow"bent`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Bent, like a bow.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Bow-compass</h1> <Xpage=171>

<hw>Bow"-com`pass</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Bow-compasses</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An arcograph.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow-shaped spring, instead of by a joint.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other.</def>

<h1>Bowel</h1> <Xpage=171>

<hw>Bow"el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>bouel</ets>, <ets>bouele</ets>, OF. <ets>boel</ets>, <ets>boele</ets>, F. <ets>boyau</ets>, fr. L. <ets>botellus</ets> a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L. <ets>botulus</ets> sausage.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.</def>

<blockquote>He burst asunder in the midst, and all his <b>bowels</b> gushed out. <i>Acts i. 18.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; <as>as, the <ex>bowels</ex> of the earth</as>.</def>

<blockquote>His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the <b>bowels</b> of the battle. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.</def> "Thou thing of no <i>bowels</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of <b>bowels</b>. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Offspring.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>