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/bˈoʊɪŋ/ /bˈaʊɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Bowing n. (Mus.)

The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. "Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc."

In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.

verb

Bow v. t. (past & past part. bowed; pres. part. bowing)

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. "We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness." "The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny."

To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline. "Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion." "Not to bow and bias their opinions."

To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension. "They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him."

To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress; to crush; to subdue. "Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave."

To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.

Bow v. i. (past & past part. bowed; pres. part. bowing)

To play (music) with a bow.

To manage the bow.

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Etymology of 'Bowing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Mrs Ragg about whose desirability we disagree," Julia told the stranger, who, with his hand to his hat, was bowing to us and moving on. He stopped for a moment, looked at the caretaker, looked back to us with ...

— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann

... windows, in breathless awe prepared to see the lady with the lamp floating from room to room, hoping to glimpse the spectral couple seated at table in the high-paneled dining hall of which you have heard so many tales. Tales of gleaming silver, white-clad Negro servants bowing with deference before the master and mistress of the ...

— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas

... window that she did not see him until he had finished his breakfast and rose from the table. As he came toward them on his way to the door, she whispered, "Look, mothah! He has only one arm, like grandfathah. I wondah if he was a soldiah, too. Why is he bowing to ...

— The Story of the Red Cross as told to The Little Colonel • Annie Fellows-Johnston

... schooner and the Venus were soon hove-to, and while the two vessels were bowing and bobbing away at each other, a boat was lowered from the quarter of the former, which came dashing over the seas urged by four stout hands towards them. Jack Rogers sat in the stern-sheets. He sprang ...

— The Three Midshipmen • W.H.G. Kingston

... lineaments. All caps were instantly doffed save the little bonnet with one drooping feather that covered his short, curled, yellow hair; and the Earl of Derby, who was at the head of Wolsey's retainers, made haste, bowing to the ground, to assure him that my Lord Archbishop was but doffing his robes, and would be with his Grace instantly. Would his Grace vouchsafe to come on to the privy chamber where the dinner ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge

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