*bower*

n. [ G. bauer a peasant. So called from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See Boor. ] One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre. [ 1913 Webster ]

Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the “Joker”) in the game. --
Left bower, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value. --
Best bower or
Joker, in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence of all others as the highest card. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bour, bur, room, dwelling, AS. būr, fr. the root of AS. būan to dwell; akin to Icel. būr chamber, storehouse, Sw. būr cage, Dan. buur, OHG. pūr room, G. bauer cage, bauer a peasant. √97 ] Cf.Boor, Byre. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me my lute in bed now as I lie,
And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. Shenstone. B. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To embower; to inclose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lodge. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bough, cf. Brancher. ] (Falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Metal.) A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600° F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric oxide (Fe2O3) and the subsequent change of this in a reduced atmosphere to the magnetic oxide (Fe2O4). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Zool.) An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus or Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus), allied to the starling. The male constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects to attract females; the satin bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied to other related birds of the same region, having similar habits; as, the spotted bower bird (Chalmydodera maculata), and the regent bird (Sericulus melinus). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Boweries [ D. bouwerij. ] A farm or plantation with its buildings. [ U. S. Hist. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The emigrants [ in New York ] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into “villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing.” Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A crossbowman.[ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [ Poetic ] Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [ Written also imbower. ] [ Poetic ] Milton. -- v. i. To lodge or rest in a bower. [ Poetic ] “In their wide boughs embow'ring. ” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. See Embower. [ 1913 Webster ]