(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
(obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
(ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
A peasant; a farmer.
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
One who bows or bends.
One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
verb
(obsolete) To lodge.
To embower; to enclose.
bowra
brawl
brawl
noun
(dance, music, historical) Alternative form of branle (“dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance”)
(dance, obsolete) A type of dance move or step.
A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.
verb
(intransitive) Especially of a rapid stream running over stones: to make a loud, confused noise.
(intransitive) To create a disturbance; to complain loudly.
(intransitive) To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
(intransitive, obsolete) To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake.
(transitive) To pour abuse on; to scold.
brawn
brawn
noun
(UK, dialectal) A boar.
(chiefly Britain) Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.
Physical strength; muscularity.
Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.
verb
(intransitive) Become fat, especially of a boar.
(transitive) Make fat, especially of a boar.
braws
brews
brews
noun
plural of brew
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brew
browd
brown
brown
adj
(US) Latino
(obsolete) Gloomy.
(of Asians) South Asian
(of East Asians) Southeast Asian
Having a brown colour.
noun
(countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
(entomology) Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
(hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
(informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
(slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
(snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
(sometimes capitalised, countable, informal) A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
(uncountable) Black tar heroin.
A brown horse or other animal.
verb
(cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
(demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
(intransitive) To become brown.
(intransitive, transitive) To tan.
(transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
(transitive) To make brown or dusky.
brows
brows
noun
plural of brow
warba
wburg
weber
weber
noun
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic flux; the flux linking a circuit of one turn that produces an electromotive force of one volt when reduced uniformly to zero in one second. Symbol: Wb.