bowwood (bowud)

1. Wood used for making bows; timber suitable for bows.-2. The Osage orange, Maclura aurantiaca, of the Mi i ippi valley. Its very strong and elastic wood was much used by the Indians for their bows. See Ma clura. bow-wow (bou'wou'), n. [Early mod. E. also bough - wough, bowgh - wawgh, baw - waw, etc., imitative of the repeated bark of a dog; ef. L. bau bar i, Gr. βαύζειν, bark: see baw2, bawll, etc.] The loud bark of a dog, or an imitation of it. -Gone to the bow-wows, gone to ruin; utterly lost. [Colloq.]-The bow-wow theory. See language.