Part 1323

<p><b>2.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.</def>

<blockquote>Like an uninstructed bowler, . . . who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his <b>bowl</b> straightforward upon it. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <pluf>pl</pluf>. <def>The game of tenpins or bowling.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<h1>Bowl</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bowl</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bowled</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bowling</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.</def>

<blockquote>Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And <b>bowl</b> the round nave down the hill of heaven. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; <as>as, we were <ex>bowled</ex> rapidly along the road</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To pelt or strike with anything rolled.</def>

<blockquote>Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And <b>bowled</b> to death with turnips<?/ <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>To bowl</col> (a player) <col>out</col></mcol>, <cd>in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bowl</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bowl</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To play with bowls.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; <as>as, the carriage <ex>bowled</ex> along</as>.</def>

<h1>Bowlder, Boulder</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw><hw>Bowl"der</hw>, <hw>Boul"der</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Sw. <ets>bullra</ets> to roar, rattle, Dan. <ets>buldre</ets>, dial. Sw. <ets>bullersteen</ets> larger kind of pebbles; perh. akin to E. <ets>bellow</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See <er>Drift</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Bowlder clay</col>, <cd>the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders.</cd> -- <col>Bowlder wall</col>, <cd>a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders.</cd></cs>

<h1>Bowldery</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bowl"der*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Characterized by bowlders.</def>

<h1>Bowleg</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bow"leg`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A crooked leg.</def>

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<h1>Bowl-legged</h1> <Xpage=172>

<hw>Bowl"-legged`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Bowler</h1> <Xpage=172>