Word Meanings - BOWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. J. W. Moore. 2. In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur

Additional info about word: BOWING

1. The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. J. W. Moore. 2. In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.

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• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• SEPARATISM
  The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
• BOW OAR
  . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• BOWGE
  To swell out. See Bouge.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• DISTRIBUTIVENESS
  Quality of being distributive.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• BOWKNOT
  A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• BOWYER
  1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• BOWLER
  One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
• SEPARATIVE
  Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle.
• BOWNE
  To make ready; to prepare; to dress. We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.
• BOWHEAD
  The great Arctic or Greenland whale. . See Baleen, and Whale.
• BOW NET
  . 1. A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel- shaped entrance at one end. 2. A net for catching birds. J. H. Walsh.
• BOWIE KNIFE
  A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie.
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• EMBOWL
  To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.