bowbellt (bobel)

One born within the A sibyl old, bow - bent with crooked age. or arcuate, as some birds. Milton , Vac. Ex., 1. 69. bow-knot; hence, a ("single bow" or "double bow-bent (bo'bent), a. Bent like a bow; bow") looped ornamental knot of ribbon, etc.; crooked. a ribbon, neck-tie, etc., tied in such a knot.7. A stroke of the bow of a violin: as, the up bow or the down- bow.-8. A ring or loop of bow-billed (bō'bild), a. Having the bill bowed metal forming a handle. (a) The loop at the end of the handle of a key. (b) One of the two hoops of a pair of sci ors fitted for the thumb and the fingers. See baill and boul. - Back of a bow. See back1. — Bows and bills, the cry raised in old times by the English to give an alarm in their camp or to encourage the people to take to arms.Bow top, or top bow, in coach - building, a piece of wood used to support the roof-boards or the leather of the top of a carriage. - Compound bow, a bow made of two or more pieces lashed or riveted together.- Grafted bow, a compound bow formed of two pieces joined together at the handle. Self-bow, in archery, a bow made of one entire piece of wood. Also called single - piece bow. Sinew-backed bow, a bow whose elasticity is increased by the use of sinew along the back, either in a cable of twine, as among the Eskimos, laid on glue, as with many tribes in the western United States of Single-piece bow. Same as self - bow. - To bend or draw a bow, to shoot with a bow. To draw the (or a) longbow, to exaggerate; lie. To have two strings (or more than one string) to one's bow, to have more than one means of accomplishing something. Mi Bertram might be said to have two strings to her bow . She had Rush worth-feelings and Crawford-feelings, and in the vicinity of Sotherton the former had con sider able effect. Jane Austen, Mans field Park, viii.