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Bower

Bower Meaning & Definition
Bower Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bower?

[n] a framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park"
[v] enclose in a bower

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bower: arbor | arbour | embower | pergola

Related Terms | Find terms related to Bower: ace | alcove | arbor | best bower | cards | clubs | conservatory | deck | deuce | diamonds | dummy | face cards | flush | full house | gazebo | glasshouse | greenhouse | hand | hearts | jack | joker | king | kiosk | knave | lathhouse | left bower | pack | pair | pergola | picture cards | playing cards | queen | retreat | round | royal flush | rubber | ruff | singleton | spades | straight | summerhouse | trey | trick | trump

See Also | enclose | frame | framework | framing | grape arbor | grape arbour | inclose | shut in

Bower In Webster's Dictionary

\Bo"wer\, n. [From {Bow}, v. & n.] 1. One who bows or bends. 2. (Naut.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. 3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. --Spenser. {Best bower}, {Small bower}. See {the Note under Anchor}.
\Bow"er\ (bou"[~e]r), n. [G. bauer a peasant. So called from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See {Boor}.] One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre. {Right bower}, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the ``Joker'') in the game. {Left bower}, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value. {Best bower} or {Joker}, in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence of all others as the highest card.
\Bow"er\, n. [OE. bour, bur, room, dwelling, AS. b[=u]r, fr. the root of AS. b[=u]an to dwell; akin to Icel. b[=u]r chamber, storehouse, Sw. b[=u]r cage, Dan. buur, OHG. p[=u]r room, G. bauer cage, bauer a peasant. [root]97] Cf.{Boor}, {Byre}.] 1. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. --Gascoigne. 2. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. --Shenstone. B. Johnson. 3. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
\Bow"er\, v. t. To embower; to inclose. --Shak.
\Bow"er\, v. i. To lodge. [Obs.] --Spenser.
\Bow"er\, n. [From {Bough}, cf. {Brancher}.] (Falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obs.]

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