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<p><b>3.</b> <def>A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.</def>

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

<hw>Bow"er</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To embower; to inclose.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

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

<hw>Bow"er</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To lodge.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

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

<hw>Bow"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Bough</er>, cf. <er>Brancher</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Falconry)</fld> <def>A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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

<hw>Bow"er bird`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>An Australian bird (<spn>Ptilonorhynchus violaceus</spn> or <spn>holosericeus</spn>), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with brightcolored objects; the satin bird.</def>

<note>&hand; The name is also applied to other related birds of the same region, having similar habits; as, the spotted <i>bower bird</i> (<spn>Chalmydodera maculata</spn>), and the regent bird (<spn>Sericulus melinus</spn>).</note>

<h1>Bowery</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bow"er*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>bowery</b> maze that shades the purple streams. <i>Trumbull.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bowery</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bow"er*y</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl.</plu> <plw>Boweries</plw> <tt>(#)</tt> <ety>[D. <ets>bouwerij</ets>.]</ety> <def>A farm or plantation with its buildings.</def> <mark>[U.S.Hist.]</mark>

<blockquote>The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on <b>boweries</b> 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." <i>Bancroft.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Bowery</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bow"er*y</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Characteristic of the street called the <er>Bowery</er>, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.</def>

<h1>Bowess</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bow"ess</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Falconry)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Bower</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Bowfin</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bow"fin`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A voracious ganoid fish (<spn>Amia calva</spn>) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also <altname>Johnny Grindle</altname>, and <altname>dogfish</altname>.</def>

<h1>Bowge</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bowge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To swell out. See <er>Bouge</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Bowge</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bowge</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cause to leak. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> See <er>Bouge</er>.</def>