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Bowline :: Bowline (n.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled..

Sea Bow :: Sea bow () See Marine rainbow, under Rainbow..

Arcuately :: Arcuately (adv.) In the form of a bow.

Weather :: Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc..

Crossette :: Crossette (n.) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow..

Elbowchair :: Elbowchair (n.) A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair.

Foremast :: Foremast (n.) The mast nearest the bow.

Cringle :: Cringle (n.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc..

Broadside :: Broadside (n.) The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter..

Akimbo :: Akimbo (a.) With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.

Bowery :: Bowery (a.) Shading, like a bower; full of bowers..

Bow :: Bow (v. t.) 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..

Unbowelled :: Unbowelled () of Unbowe.

Pizzicato :: Pizzicato () A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.).

Bockey :: Bockey (n.) A bowl or vessel made from a gourd.

Anconoid :: Anconoid (a.) Elbowlike; anconal.

Red :: Red (superl.) Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part..

Bow :: Bow (v. t.) 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..

Entrance :: Entrance (n.) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.

Roseate :: Roseate (a.) Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers..

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