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Meaning Of Bow
v. t.
To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect;
to make crooked or curved.
v. t.
To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to
bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
v. t.
To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of
respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
v. t.
To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to
crush; to subdue.
v. t.
To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.
v. i.
To bend; to curve.
v. i.
To stop.
v. i.
To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or
submission; -- often with down.
v. i.
To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or
assent; to make bow.
n.
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.
v. t.
Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by
doubling a ribbon or string.
v. t.
The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and
fastens it to the yoke.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
An arcograph.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's
altitude at sea.
sing. or pl.
Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward
part of a saddletree.
v. i.
To play (music) with a bow.
v. i.
To manage the bow.
n.
The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or
prow.
n.
One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.