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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bower \Bow"er\, noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bower \Bow"er\, verb (used with an object) To embower; to inclose. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bower \Bow"er\, verb (used without an object) To lodge. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bower \Bow"er\, noun [From {Bough}, cf. {Brancher}.] (Falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bower \Bo"wer\, noun [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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bower \Bow"er\ (bou"[~e]r), noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bower
noun: a framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park" [syn: {arbor}, {arbour}, {pergola}]
verb: enclose in a bower [syn: {embower}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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