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Bower   /bˈaʊər/   Listen
noun
Bower  n.  
1.
One who bows or bends.
2.
(Naut.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
3.
A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. (Obs.) "His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew."
Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.


Bower  n.  One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the "Joker") in the game.
Left bower, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value.
Best bower or Joker bower, in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence of all others as the highest card.


Bower  n.  
1.
Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. "Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower."
2.
A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
3.
A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.


Bower  n.  (Falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. (Obs.)


verb
Bower  v. t.  To embower; to inclose.


Bower  v. i.  To lodge. (Obs.)





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"Bower" Quotes from Famous Books



... seized with this malady a tree is selected at some distance from the settlement up which a little bower is hurriedly made and the person attacked is placed there and left with a little food at hand. Next day the relatives go to see if he or she is living and call out their demands, in a loud voice, a long way off. If there is a movement or an answer they go nearer and throw up some food but if there ...
— My Friends the Savages - Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) • Giovanni Battista Cerruti
... goat-herd, who invites Thomalin, a shepherd, to come to the higher grounds, and leave the low-lying lands. He tells Thomalin that many hills have been canonized, as St. Michael's Mount, St. Bridget's Bower in Kent, and so on; then there was Mount Sinah and Mount Parnass, where the Muses dwelt. Thomalin replies, "The lowlands are safer, and hills are not for shepherds." He then illustrates his remark by the tale of shepherd Algrind, who sat, like Morrel, on a hill, when an eagle, taking his ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 • E. Cobham Brewer
... violet in her greenwood bower, Where birchen boughs with hazels mingle, May boast itself the fairest flower In glen, ...
— Sir Walter Scott - (English Men of Letters Series) • Richard H. Hutton
... with her maidens in her bower, The gray-haired warder watches from the castle's topmost tower; "What news? what news, old Hubert?"—"The battle's lost and won; The royal troops are melting, like mists before the sun! And a wounded man approaches;—I'm ...
— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various
... man!" he whispered once to Carroll, "this part of it is a farce for an old fellow like me, standing in a blooming bower, being patted on the ...
— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman


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