bower

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A woman's bedroom or private apartments, especially in a medieval castle
A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow
A large nest made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays
A picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods
Either of the two highest trumps in euchre
A bower is a shady, leafy shelter in a garden or wood. a pleasant place in the shade under a tree
{n} an arbor made in a garden, an anchor
An anchor carried at the bow of a ship
twined together; an arbor; a shady recess
enclose in a bower
A type of ships anchor, carried at the bow
A womans bedroom or private apartments, especially in a medieval castle
the arm
To embower; to inclose
One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre
A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat
One who bows or bends
To lodge
{i} arbor; dwelling-place; ship anchor
A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc
a framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park"
a lady's private apartment
A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest
Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp
A muscle that bends a limb, esp
bower anchor
each of the two main anchors of a ship, carried permanently attached to their cables on each side of the bow, always ready to be let go in case of an emergency
bower anchors
plural form of bower anchor
bower bird
A person who collects objects for display
bower bird
A type of Australasian bird noted for building a large nest decorated with bright objects such as shells and glass
bower actinidia
high-climbing Asiatic vine having long finely serrate leaves and racemes of white flowers followed by greenish-yellow edible fruit
bower bird
An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus or holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects; the satin bird
Bowery
A street and a district of New York City, whose residents were traditionally of a low social and economic class. (usually the Bowery.)

We were seen quarrelling this afternoon in a saloon over on the Bowery.

bowery
In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate

His estate, or bowery, as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.

bowery
Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady

Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb.

bowery
{a} full of bowers, shady, retired, cool
Bowers
underhandedly
bowers
plural of bower
bowery
Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy
bowery
Shading, like a bower; full of bowers
bowery
{s} leafy and shady
bowery
{i} seedy or run-down district of a city
bowery
like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane"
bowery
a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
bowery
a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane
bowery
A farm or plantation with its buildings
ladys bower
A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba)
virgin's bower
common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
bower
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