Word Meanings - OBEISANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Obedience. Chaucer. 2. A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy. Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king. 1 Kings i. 16.

Related words: (words related to OBEISANCE)

• BOW OAR
  . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
• BOWGE
  To swell out. See Bouge.
• 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.
• OBEDIENCE
  1. The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. Government must compel the obedience of individuals. Ames. 2. Words or actions denoting
• BOWYER
  1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows.
• BOWLER
  One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
• 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.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• 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.
• BOWENITE
  A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.
• BOWLEG
  A crooked leg. Jer. Taylor.
• BOWESS
  See BOWER
• BOWELLESS
  Without pity. Sir T. Browne.
• BOWINGLY
  In a bending manner.
• 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
• BOWWOW
  An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark. -- a.
• BOWTEL
  See BOULTEL
• BOW-BELLS
  The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom. People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called cockneys. Murray's Handbook of London.
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• EMBOWL
  To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.
• INOBEDIENCE
  Disobedience. Wyclif. Chaucer.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• HIGH-EMBOWED
  Having lofty arches. "The high-embowed roof." Milton.