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BOWLING, ppr. Playing at bowls.
BOWLING-GREEN, n. [bowl and green.] A level piece of ground kept smooth for bowl...
BOWMAN,n. [bow and man.] A man who uses a bow; an archer. Jer 4:29. BOW'MAN , n....
BOWNET, n. [bow and net.] An engine for catching lobsters and crawfish, called a...
BOW'RS, n. [from bos.] Muscles that bend the joints.
BOWSE, v.i. In seaman's language, to pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to ...
BOWSPRIT, n. [bow and sprit.] A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem...
BOWSS'EN, v.t. To drink; to drench. [Not used.]
BOWYER, n. [from bow, a corruption of bower,like sawyer.] An archer; one who use...
BOX, n. [ Lat. buxus, the tree, and pyxis, a box; Gr. a box, and the tree.] A co...
BOX'ED, pp. Inclosed in a box; struck on the head with the fist or hand; furnish...
BOX'EN, a. Made of box-wood; resembling box.
BOX'ER, n. One who fights with his fist. BOX'-HAUL , v.t. To veer a ship in a pa...
BOX'ING, ppr. Inclosing in a box; striking with the fist; furnishing with a box....
BOY, n. [L. puer for puger, for we See By puella, that r is not radical. So the ...
BOY'AR, n. A Russian nobleman. [See Boiar .]