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.