bow
bow has 37 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 3.
Definitions
- v. t.. To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
- v. t.. To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
- v. t.. To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
- v. t.. To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.
- v. t.. To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.
- v. i.. To bend; to curve.
- v. i.. To stop.
- v. i.. To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.
- v. i.. To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.
- n.. An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility.
- v. t.. Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
- v. t.. A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.