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(ISO 639)
(senseid) A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.

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(quote-web)
A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see ''oxbow'').
(senseid) A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed instruments.
A instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
(senseid) 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.
(RQ:KJV)
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.
(quote-book) she kept toying with a pair of old sunglasses which lay beside her on the kitchen table. One of the bows had been mended with adhesive tape, and one of the lenses was cracked.
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.
A crude 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 tree.
The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.

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To bend or curve, particularly downward.
(RQ:King James Version)
(RQ:Milton Divorce) as when we bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their naturall ſtraitneſſe.
(RQ:Prescott Mexico)bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny.
To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend or incline, figuratively; to humble or subdue.
(RQ:Bacon Essayes)
(RQ:Fuller Church History)
(quote-book)|title=Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems|passage=Know thou the secret of a spiritBow’d from its wild pride into shame.
To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
(RQ:Baum Wizard of Oz)
(RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)
To debut.
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2010 (publication date), Kara Krekeler, "Rebuilding the opera house", ''West End Word'', volume 39, number 26, December 22, 2010 – January 11, 2011, page 1:

SCP recently announced that ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical'' will bow on the newly renovated stage next December.

To defer (to something).
To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
(RQ:Burroughs Return of Tarzan)
(quote-book)
A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
(senseid) The front of a boat or ship.

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