| bow | (noun) a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments | - |
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| (noun) a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments | - |
| (noun) a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow | - |
| (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bowknot |
| (noun) a decorative interlacing of ribbons | - |
| (noun) something curved in shape | Synonyms: arc |
| (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: fore, prow, stem |
| (noun) an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience | Synonyms: curtain call |
| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bowing, obeisance |
| (verb) bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head | Synonyms: bow down |
| (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, defer, give in, submit |
| (verb) bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting | - |
| (verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bend, crouch, stoop |
| (verb) play on a stringed instrument with a bow | - |
| bowdlerisation | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
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| (noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
| bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowdleriser | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdlerizer, expurgator |
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| bowdlerization | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
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| (noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
| bowdlerize | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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| bowdlerizer | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, expurgator |
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| bowed | (adjective) of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow | - |
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| (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate |
| (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowleg, bowlegged |
| (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowing |
| bowel | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: gut, intestine |
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| bowelless | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: cutthroat, fierce |
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| bowels | (noun) the center of the Earth | - |
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| bower | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, arbour, pergola |
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| (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: embower |
| bowerbird | (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | Synonyms: catbird |
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| bowery | (adjective) like a bower; leafy and shady | - |
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| bowfin | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, dogfish, grindle |
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| bowfront | (adjective) having an outward curving front | - |
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| bowhead | (noun) large-mouthed Arctic whale | Synonyms: Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale, Greenland whale |
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| bowing | (adjective) showing an excessively deferential manner | Synonyms: bowed |
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| (noun) managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument | - |
| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, obeisance |
| bowknot | (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bow |
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| bowl | (noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) | Synonyms: roll |
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| (noun) a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods | - |
| (noun) a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids | - |
| (noun) a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco | Synonyms: pipe bowl |
| (noun) a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments | Synonyms: arena, sports stadium, stadium |
| (noun) a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling | - |
| (noun) a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling | Synonyms: bowling ball |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a bowl | Synonyms: bowlful |
| (noun) a concave shape with an open top | Synonyms: trough |
| (verb) engage in the sport of bowling | - |
| (verb) hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end | - |
| (verb) roll (a ball) | - |
| bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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| bowleg | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowlegged |
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| (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, genu varum, tibia vara |
| bowlegged | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowleg |
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| bowler | (noun) a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim | Synonyms: bowler hat, derby, derby hat, plug hat |
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| (noun) a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins | - |
| (noun) a cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket | - |
| bowlful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bowl | Synonyms: bowl |
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| bowline | (noun) a loop knot that neither slips nor jams | Synonyms: bowline knot |
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| bowling | (noun) a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them | - |
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| (noun) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc | - |
| (noun) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman | - |
| bowls | (noun) a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack | Synonyms: lawn bowling |
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| bowman | (noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow | Synonyms: archer |
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| bowse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bouse |
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| bowsprit | (noun) a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel | - |
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| bowstring | (noun) the string of an archer's bow | - |
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| bowtie | (noun) a man's tie that ties in a bow | Synonyms: bow-tie, bow tie |
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| crossbow | (noun) a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel) | - |
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| disembowel | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: draw, eviscerate |
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| disembowelment | (noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: evisceration |
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| elbow | (noun) the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow | - |
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| (noun) the part of a sleeve that covers the elbow joint | - |
| (noun) a sharp bend in a road or river | - |
| (noun) a length of pipe with a sharp bend in it | - |
| (noun) hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped | Synonyms: articulatio cubiti, cubital joint, cubitus, elbow joint, human elbow |
| (verb) shove one's elbow into another person's ribs | - |
| (verb) push one's way with the elbows | - |
| elbowing | (noun) jostling with the elbows | - |
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| embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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| fishbowl | (noun) a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
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| (noun) a state of affairs in which you have no privacy | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
| handbow | (noun) a bow drawn by hand as distinguished from a crossbow | - |
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| longbow | (noun) a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England | - |
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| longbowman | (noun) a medieval English archer who used a longbow | - |
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| oxbow | (noun) a wooden framework bent in the shape of a U; its upper ends are attached to the horizontal yoke and the loop goes around the neck of an ox | - |
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| (noun) a U-shaped curve in a stream | - |
| (noun) the land inside an oxbow bend in a river | - |
| rainbow | (noun) an illusory hope | - |
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| (noun) an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain | - |
| saddlebow | (noun) handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle | Synonyms: pommel |
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| unbowed | (adjective) erect in posture | Synonyms: straight, unbent |
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| (adjective) not forced to bow down to a conqueror | - |
| washbowl | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, lavabo, wash-hand basin, washbasin |
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| (noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, lavatory, washbasin, washstand |