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One who bows or bends.

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  1. v. & n. One who bows or bends.
  2. v. & n. An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
  3. v. & n. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
  4. n. One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
  5. n. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
  6. n. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
  7. n. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
  8. v. t. To embower; to inclose.
  9. v. i. To lodge.
  10. n. A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
  11. n. a framework that supports climbing plants
  12. v. enclose in a bower