bower noun 11verb 2forms 3 noun11 •A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. — 1572 •A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.[…]say that thou overheard'st us, And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter;[…] — 1598 •(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.While friends arrived in circles gay, To visit Damon's bower — 1748 •A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays. •Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted). •A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow. •One who bows or bends.The bower aims his display straight at the dominant figure, who may reciprocate with a milder version of the same action. — 1977 •One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow. •A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. •A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.His rawbone armes, whose mighty brawned bowrs / Were wont to riue steele plates, and helmets hew — 1590 •A peasant; a farmer. verb2 •To embower; to enclose.O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell / When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend / In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh? — 1591 •(no longer used) To lodge.Flora now calleth forth each flower, And bids make readie Maias bower — 1579 formsbowered · bowering · bowers
