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Webster 1913 Edition
Bower
1.
One who bows or bends.
2.
(Naut.)
An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
3.
A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
[Obs.]
His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned
Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.
bowers
Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.
Spenser.
Best bower
, Small bower
Bow′er
(bou′ẽr)
, Noun.
[G.
bauer
a peasant. So called from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See Boor
.] One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
Right bower
, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the “Joker”) in the game.
– Left bower
, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value.
– Best bower
or Joker
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.
Bow′er
,Noun.
1.
Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady’s private apartment.
Give me my lute in bed now as I lie,
And lock the doors of mine unlucky
And lock the doors of mine unlucky
bower
. Gascoigne.
2.
A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
Shenstone. B. Johnson.
3.
A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
Bow′er
,Verb.
T.
To embower; to inclose.
Shak.
Bow′er
,Verb.
I.
To lodge.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bower
BOW'ER
,Noun.
BOW'ER
,Noun.
1.
A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees bent and twined together. It differs from arbor in that it may be round or square, whereas an arbor is long and arched.2.
A bed-chamber; any room in a house except the hall.3.
A country seat; a cottage.4.
A shady recess; a plantation for shade.BOW'ER
,Verb.
T.
BOW'ER
,Verb.
I.