English English Dictionary

The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom.

An arcograph.

A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow-shaped spring, instead of by a joint.

A pair of compasses, with a bow or arched plate riveted to one of the legs, and passing through the other.

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Bow-compasses carrying a drawing pen. See Bow-compass.

Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil.

A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame.

Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; easily influenced; yielding.

One born within hearing distance of Bow-bells; a cockney.

Bent, like a bow.

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The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.

Offspring.

One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.

To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.

Having bowels; hollow.

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