bowl (bou)

[Early mod. E. also bowe, bough; = Bovista ammophila. MD. büghen, (From Le Maout and De caisne's "Traité général de Botanique.") bügan (pret. be ah, pl. bug pp. bogen ), bend, bow, flee, strong verb, only in trans., OS. * bug an = D. buigen = MLG. bügen = OHG. biog an, MHG. G. biegen = Icel. * bjūga (preserved in pp. boginn and pret. 3d pers. pl. ref i. bugusk ), bend; prob. = L. fugere = Gr. φεύγειν, flee, = Skt. ✔ bhuj, bend. Orig. and prop. in trans.; whence the derived factitive form, AS. būgan, biégan, bēgan, ME. bugen, etc., mod. E. dial. bay, weak verb, trans., cause to bend: see bay. Cf. Icel. bug a = Sw. bug a, weak verb, bow, make a bow. Hence ult. the secondary verbs bay, buck2, bucklel, and the nouns bow2, bought = bout1 = bight, baill, boul, etc.] I. in trans. 11. To become bent or crooked; a ume a curved form; bend; curve. [Still in colloquial use in Scotland.] Better bow than break. Proverb. Like an a whose back with ingots bows . Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. 21. To tend; turn; incline. Thei bowiden awei fro the lawe of God. Wyclif , Baruch iv. 12. 3. To bend or curve downward; take a bent posture or attitude; stoop. The flame o' the taper Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids. Shak ., Cymbeline, ii. 2 As to soft gales top-heavy pines bow low. Pope , Dunciad, ii. 391. 4. To bend the neck under a yoke; submit or become subject; yield: as, to bow to the inevitable. On of us two mot bouwe douteles. Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 440. Often tyme it is betere to bow than to berst. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 34. 5. To bend the body or head in worship, or in token of reverence, respect, or submi ion: with to or before, and sometimes emphasized by down. IMG:content-2384.png:[blocks in formation] To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. Milton , P. L., i. 111. 6. To make a bow; incline the body or the head toward a person by way of salutation or friendly recognition, or in acknowledgment of some courtesy. II. trans. 1. To cause to bend; make curved or crooked; cause to a ume and retain a bent shape. They rather breake him, than bowe him, rather marre him, then mend him. Ascham , The Scholemaster, p. 31. 2. To cause to stoop or become bent, as with old age or a burden; hence, to crush. Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 1. Bow him, yet bow him more, Dash that same gla of water in his face. B. Jonson, Magnet ick Lady, iii. 4 IMG:content-2385.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2386.png:[blocks in formation] With ceremonious thrift, bowed out of doors. Lowell, Under the Willows. To bow down the back. See back1 .