| • | To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. |
| • | To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline. |
| • | To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension. |
| • | To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue. |
| • | To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks. |
| • | To bend; to curve. |
| • | To stop. |
| • | To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down. |
| • | To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow. |
| • | 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. |
| • | An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string. |
| • | The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke. |
| • | An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument. |
| • | An arcograph. |
| • | Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters. |
| • | A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea. |
| • | Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree. |
| • | To play (music) with a bow. |
| • | To manage the bow. |
| • | The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow. |
| • | One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar. |
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