Index of English words, starting with "bo"

(1) - Bowel (v. t.) To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
(2) - Bowel (n.) Offspring.
(3) - Bowel (n.) The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.
(4) - Bowel (n.) Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.
(5) - Bowel (n.) One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.

(1) - Bower (n.) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
(2) - Bower (v. i.) To lodge.
(3) - Bower (v. t.) To embower; to inclose.
(4) - Bower (n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
(5) - Bower (n.) A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
(6) - Bower (n.) Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
(7) - Bower (n.) One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
(8) - Bower (v. & n.) A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
(9) - Bower (v. & n.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
(10) - Bower (v. & n.) One who bows or bends.

(1) - Bowery (a.) Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.
(2) - Bowery (n.) A farm or plantation with its buildings.
(3) - Bowery (a.) Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.

(1) - Bowfin (n.) A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.