arbor, arbour, bower, pergola
(noun) a framework that supports climbing plants; āthe arbor provided a shady resting place in the parkā
embower, bower
(verb) enclose in a bower
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Bower
A surname.
• bowre
bower (plural bowers)
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
(ornithology) A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
• boudoir
bower (third-person singular simple present bowers, present participle bowering, simple past and past participle bowered)
To embower; to enclose.
(obsolete) To lodge.
bower (plural bowers)
A peasant; a farmer.
bower (plural bowers)
Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
bower (plural bowers)
(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
bower (plural bowers)
One who bows or bends.
A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
bower (plural bowers)
One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
bower (plural bowers)
(obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
• bowre
Source: Wiktionary
Bo"wer, n. Etym: [From Bow, v. & n.]
1. One who bows or bends.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: 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.
Bow"er, n. Etym: [G. bauer a peasant. So called from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See Boor.]
Definition: 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.
Bow"er, n. Etym: [OE. bour, bur, room, dwelling, AS. bur, fr. the root of AS. buan to dwell; akin to Icel. bur chamber, storehouse, Sw. bur cage, Dan. buur, OHG. pur room, G. bauer cage, bauer a peasant. *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.
Bow"er, v. t.
Definition: To embower; to inclose. Shak.
Bow"er, v. i.
Definition: To lodge. [Obs.] Spenser.
Bow"er, n. Etym: [From Bough, cf. Brancher.] (Falconry)
Definition: A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; ātheir business venture was doomed from the startā; āan ill-fated business ventureā; āan ill-starred romanceā; āthe unlucky prisoner was again put in ironsā- W.H.Prescott
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
