Bow
Definition of Bow
Pronunciation: bou | v. t. | 1. | | | 1. | To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. | | 2. | To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline. | | 3. | To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension. | | 4. | To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,; to crush; to subdue. | | 5. | To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks. | | v. i. | 1. | To bend; to curve. | | 2. | To stop. | | 3. | To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; - often with down. | | 4. | To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow. | | n. | 1. | An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility. | | 1. | | | 1. | Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.I do set my bow in the cloud. - Gen. ix. 13. | | 2. | A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled. | | 3. | An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string. | | 4. | The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke. | | 5. | (Mus.) An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument. | | 6. | An arcograph. | | 7. | (Mech. & Manuf.) Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters. | | 8. | (Naut.) A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea. | | 9. | (Saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree. | | v. i. | 1. | To play (music) with a bow. | | n. | 1. | | | 1. | (Naut.) The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow. | | 2. | (Naut.) One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar. |
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