Part 1320

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

<hw>Bow"el</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Boweled</er> or <er>Bowelled</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr.& vb. n.</tt> <er>Boweling</er> or <er>Bowelling</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.</def>

<h1>Boweled</h1> <Xpage=171>

<hw>Bow"eled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt></ety> <altsp>[Written also <asp>bowelled</asp>.]</altsp> <def>Having bowels; hollow.</def> "The <i>boweled</i> cavern."

<i>Thomson.</i>

<h1>Bowelless</h1> <Xpage=171>

<hw>Bow"el*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without pity.</def>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Bowenite</h1> <Xpage=171>

<hw>Bow"en*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From G.T.<ets>Bowen</ets>, who analyzed it in 1822.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.</def>

<h1>Bower</h1> <Xpage=171>

<hw>Bo"wer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Bow</er>, <tt>v. & n</tt>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>One who bows or bends.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned <b>bowers</b>

<blockquote>Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>Best bower</col>, <col>Small bower</col></mcol>. <cd>See <er>the Note under Anchor</er>.</cd></cs>

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<h1>Bower</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bow"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[G. <ets>bauer</ets> a peasant. So called from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See <er>Boor</er>.]</ety> <def>One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.</def>

<cs><col>Right bower</col>, <cd>the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the "Joker") in the game.</cd> -- <col>Left bower</col>, <cd>the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Best bower</col> or <col>Joker</col></mcol>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bower</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bow"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>bour</ets>, <ets>bur</ets>, room, dwelling, AS. <ets>b\'d4r</ets>, fr. the root of AS. <ets>b\'d4an</ets> to dwell; akin to Icel. <ets>b\'d4r</ets> chamber, storehouse, Sw. <ets>b\'d4r</ets> cage, Dan. <ets>buur</ets>, OHG. <ets>p\'d4r</ets> room, G. <ets>bauer</ets> cage, <ets>bauer</ets> a peasant. \'fb97] Cf.<er>Boor</er>, <er>Byre</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.</def>

<blockquote>Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky <b>bower</b>. <i>Gascoigne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.</def>

<i>Shenstone. B. Johnson.</i>