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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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Etymology of 'Bower'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bower" Quotes from Famous Books

... for three days, only for those three days her sun porch was a bower of roses. On Memorial Day, Mother and I stood once more together beside a little mound where God had led us. Late that afternoon we returned to the home to which Marjorie had taken us. It had grown more lovely with the beauty which has ...

— Making the House a Home • Edgar A. Guest

... loud uproar bursts from that door! The wedding-guests are there: But in the garden-bower the bride And bridesmaids singing are: And hark the little vesper bell, Which ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester

... had just reached the foot of the hill, upon which the Bower of Nature stood—have we not mentioned before the name which Miss Sallianna had bestowed upon the seminary?—when he heard himself accosted by a laughing and careless voice, and raised his head, to ...

— The Last of the Foresters • John Esten Cooke

... Life goes on around him; he is indifferent to it, caring only to fix the colour of his enamel, to cut his cameo with unfaltering hand. When the Prussian assault was intended to the city, when Regnault gave away his life as a soldier, Gautier in the Muses' bower sat pondering his epithets and filing his phrases. Was it strength, or was it weakness? His work survives and will survive by virtue of its beauty—beauty somewhat hard and material, but such as the artist sought. In 1872 Gautier died. ...

— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden

... reached not France, for southern tempest's spite Impelled me hither; lodged in royal bower Ten months or more; for — miserable wight! — I reckon every day and every hour. Guido the Savage I by name am hight, Ill known and scarcely proved in warlike stower. Here Argilon of Meliboea I Slew with ten ...

— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto

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