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      bow
      noun
      (archery) A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
      A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
      (music) A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
      A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
      A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
      Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
      The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
      Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
      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 hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
      (nautical) A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
      (saddlery) Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddle tree.
      The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
      Either of the two handles of a pair of scissors.
      A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
      (nautical) The front of a boat or ship.
      (rowing) The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
      A place name:
      A place in the United Kingdom
      A suburb of eastern London in the borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3782).
      A village and civil parish in Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS7201).
      A hamlet in Ashprington parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX8156).
      A hamlet in Stanford in the Vale parish, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU3494).
      A place in the United States
      An unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Kentucky.
      A town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
      An unincorporated commmunity in Skagit County, Washington.
      A surname.
      Ellipsis of bow-wow [The sound of a dog barking.]
      Alternative form of bao; any of several Chinese buns and breads [Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine]
      Obsolete spelling of bough. [A tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk.]
      Ellipsis of Bow Street [A street in London WC2, England, of Bow Street Runner fame (OS grid ref TQ3081).]
      Ellipsis of Bow Creek [A river in Greater London, England, which is the tidal part of the River Lea before it reaches the Thames.]
      (computational linguistics) Initialism of bag of words. [(computational linguistics) The collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar; a collection of word unigrams.]
      (computational linguistics) Alternative letter-case form of BOW.
      verb
      To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
      (ergative) To bend or curve, particularly downward.
      (transitive, figurative) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend or incline, figuratively; to humble or subdue.
      (intransitive) To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
      (transitive and intransitive) To debut.
      (intransitive) To defer (to something).
      (transitive) To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
      about to
      Ellipsis of bow-wow [To make the sound of a dog, to bark, to bow-wow]
      Synonyms for bow
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