bower1 (bouer)

[Early mod. E. also bour, boure, etc.; Courtesy oft-times in simple bowers Is found as great as in the stately towers. Sir J. Haring ton , tr. of Ariosto, xiv. 62. 21. An inner room; any room in a house except the hall or public room; hence, a bedchamber. In hast came rushing forth from inner bowre . Spenser , F. Q., I. viii. 5. 3. Especially, a lady's private chamber; a boudoir. [Poetical.] The feast was over in Brank some tower, And the Ladye had gone to her secret bower . Scott , L. of L. M., i. 1. 4. A shelter made with boughs or twining plants; an arbor; a shady rece . I only begged a little woodbine bower Where I might sit and weep. W. Mason, English Garden, 3. bower1t (bou'er), v. [ 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? other stringed instrument. bowers (bö'er or bou'ér), n. [Also written booer; Satin Bower-bird (Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus). tuting with some authors a subfamily Ptilono rhynchina, of the family Oriolida. They are remarkable for building what are called bowers, runs, or playhouses, which they adorn with gay feathers, rags, bones, shells, and other white, bright, or conspicuous objects. There are several species of both the genera named; the best-known are the satin bower-bird, P. holosericeus, and the spotted bower-bird, C. maculata. The bowers are not the nests of the birds, but places of resort where they amuse themselves.