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To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect;
to make crooked or curved. |
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To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to
bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline. |
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To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of
respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension. |
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To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to
crush; to subdue. |
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To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks. |
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To bend; to curve. |
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To stop. |
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To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or
submission; -- often with down. |
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To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or
assent; to make bow. |
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An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token
of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow
of deep humility. |
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Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow. |
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A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic
material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an
arrow is propelled. |
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An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by
doubling a ribbon or string. |
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The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and
fastens it to the yoke. |
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An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of
horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a
stringed instrument. |
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An arcograph. |
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Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends
connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a
drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by
hatters. |
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A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's
altitude at sea. |
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Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward
part of a saddletree. |
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To play (music) with a bow. |
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To manage the bow. |
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The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or
prow. |
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One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar. |
