Bow: alternatives and connections

The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

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To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

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Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

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The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.

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To bend; as, to flex the arm.

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The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.

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To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.

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Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.

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A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.

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The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

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The act or art of ornamenting, or the state of being ornamented.

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.

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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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Struck.

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To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

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of Thank

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An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring…

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To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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The act of taking leave; parting ceremony; farewell; also, dismissal.

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See Conge, Conge.

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To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.

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Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.

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To bend the knee, as in worship.

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To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.

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The same as Kotow.

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To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…

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A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower;…

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A weapon, used in discharging arrows, formed by placing a bow crosswise on a stock.

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The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.

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The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.

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The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degre…

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The same as Kotow.

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The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such…

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A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by th…

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Same as Salam.

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To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…

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of Scrape

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Any part of a curved line.

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Any part of a curved line.

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Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight o…

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Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight o…

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One who stoops.

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One who stoops.

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The string of a bow.

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A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

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A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bo…

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Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.

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Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.

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To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.

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A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse.

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To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

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of Bow

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A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.

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To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.

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To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

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Journey; way; method of proceeding.

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Obedience.

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The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.

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Alt. of Steem

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Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight o…

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To let down; to lower.

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