meaning of bow
1. To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
2. To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
3. To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
4. To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.
5. To express by bowing; as, to bow ones thanks.
6. To bend; to curve.
7. To stop.
8. To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.
9. To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.
10. 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. Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
12. 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. An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.
14. The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
15. 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. An arcograph.
17. 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. A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the suns altitude at sea.
19. Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
20. To play (music) with a bow.
21. To manage the bow.
22. The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.
23. One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.
24. The hand that holds the bow, i. e. , the left hand.
25. The hand that draws the bow, i. e. , the right hand.
26. A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel-shaped entrance at one end.
27. A net for catching birds.
28. The oar used by the bowman.
29. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
30. a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments
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