Word Meanings - BOWESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

BOWER BIRD
An Australian bird , allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with brightcolored objects; the satin bird. Note: The name is also applied to other related birds of the same region, having
BOWERY
Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.
BOWER-BARFF PROCESS
A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600º
BOWER
An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. 3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor. (more
EMBOWER
To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
DISEMBOWERED
Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
IMBOWER
See EMBOWER
CROSSBOWER
A crossbowman.
LADY'S BOWER
A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms . Note: This term is sometimes applied to other plants of the same genus.