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General dictionaries General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. bow, bow: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. bow, bow, bow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. bow, bow, bow: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. bow: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. BOW, Bow, bow: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. bow: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Bow: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. bow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. bow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. bow: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. BOW: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. bow (n1.), bow (n2.), bow (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. Bow, bow: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. bow: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  15. bow: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  16. B.O.W, Bow (Breath of Fire 2 character), Bow (Breath of Fire character), Bow (NH), Bow (She-Ra), Bow (archery), Bow (boat), Bow (disambiguation), Bow (knot), Bow (music), Bow (musical instrument), Bow (ship), Bow (weapon), Bow, The Bow (Calgary), The Bow (film), The Bow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  17. bow: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  18. Bow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  19. bow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  20. bow: Rhymezone [home, info]
  21. Bow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  22. bow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  23. bow: All About Homonyms [home, info]
  24. Bow, Bow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  25. Bow: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  26. bow: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  27. bow: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  28. bow: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  29. Bow, bow: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  30. Bow: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bow: Banjo Glossary [home, info]
  2. Bow: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
  3. Bow: Natural Magick [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bow: Travel Industry Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Bow: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  3. Bow (disambiguation), bow: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  4. bow: Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms [home, info]
  5. BOW: WebmasterWorld Webmaster and Search Engine Glossary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bow (boat), Bow (disambiguation), Bow (river, Canada), Bow (weapon), bow: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bow: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. Bow (boat), Bow (disambiguation), bow: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bow: baby names list [home, info]
  2. Bow: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
  3. BOW: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  4. BOW: Three Letter Words with definitions [home, info]
  5. BOW: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
  6. bow: Idioms [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bow: Easton Bible [home, info]
  2. Bow: Smith's Bible Dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bow: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
  2. Bow: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bow: The Folk File [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bow: Canoe Glossary [home, info]
  2. BOW: Glossary of Canoe Terminology [home, info]
  3. bow, bow: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
  4. Bow: Sports Definitions [home, info]
  5. bow: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOW: Metal Terminology [home, info]
  2. Bow: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  3. bow: Locksmith Dictionary [home, info]
  4. BOW: Glossary of Nautical Terms [home, info]
  5. Bow: Glossary of Woodworking Terms [home, info]
  6. bow: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  7. BOW: Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms [home, info]

Quick definitions (bow)

noun:  a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments
noun:  a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands, used in playing certain stringed instrument
noun:  curved piece of resilient wood with taut cord to propel arrows
noun:  front part of a vessel or aircraft ("He pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line")
noun:  a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces
noun:  a decorative interlacing of ribbons
noun:  an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience
noun:  bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame
noun:  something curved in shape
verb:  bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting ("He bowed before the King")
verb:  bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head ("He bowed before the King")
verb:  play on a string instrument
verb:  submit or yield to another's wish or opinion ("The government bowed to the military pressure")
verb:  bend one's back forward from the waist on down ("She bowed before the Queen")
name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #9466)

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