Thesaurus: bow

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1. v. t. To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
2. v. t. To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
3. v. t. To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
4. v. t. To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.
5. v. t. To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.
6. v. i. To bend; to curve.
7. v. i. To stop.
8. v. i. To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.
9. v. i. To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.
10. n. 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.
11. v. t. Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
12. v. t. 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.
13. v. t. An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.
14. v. t. The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
15. v. t. 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.
16. v. t. An arcograph.
17. v. t. 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.
18. v. t. A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
19. sing. or pl. Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
20. v. i. To play (music) with a bow.
21. v. i. To manage the bow.
22. n. The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.
23. n. One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.