BOW, BOWED, BOWING
ADJECTIVES
1400 • LUTTERED bowed, crooked → obs.
1430 • COURBED bowed, bent, crooked → obs.
1500 • CURBED bowed, bent, curved → obs.
1731 • ARCUATILE bowed or bent → obs.
1856 • BECKING bowing, curtsying → Sc.
1911 • BOW’T bowed, bent; crooked → Sc. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1521 • BENT a bow; a piece bent into a curve bow → obs.
1529 • BEND a bow; a bending of the body → obs.
1584 • BENT a bowing, stooping, nodding, inclination, → obs.
1592 • CRINGE a servile or sycophantic bow; an obsequious, deferential, or sycophantic act or attitude
1671 • ABAISANCE a bow; the bending of the body as a mark of respect → obs.
1731 • ARCUATURE the bowing or bending of an arch → obs.
1740 • SCRAPE a bow, an obeisance → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1899 • OBEISANCE a bow, a curtsy → Eng. dial.
1905 • MANNERS a bow or curtsey → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 • BOO a bow, a bend → Sc. (Bk.)
VERBS
1000 • ABOW to bow, to bend, to incline, to stoop; fig. to do homage or reverence; to submit → obs.
1073 • ABEY • ABEYE to bow, to bend, to make obedient → obs.
1320 • CROOK to bow; to bend the body in sign of reverence or humility → obs.
1394 • CROUK to bow, to make obeisance → obs.
1578 • BECKON to bow, to nod → obs.
1587 • MAKE A LONG LEG to bow, to curtsy → obs.
………. • MAKE A LOW LEG to bow, to curtsy → obs.
1589 • MAKE A LEG to bow in obeisance by drawing back one leg and bending the other → arch.
1593 • VAIL to bow or bend down to the ground in obeisance or salutation → obs.
1607 • CRINKLE IN THE HAMS to bend the body in a timorous or servile manner; to bow obsequiously or sycophantically → obs.
1628 • LEG to bow, to curtsy; to make a gesture of submission or deferential respect → obs.
1724 • BECK to bow, to curtsy; to make obeisance; to nod or bow the head → Sc.
………. • BINGE to bow; to cringe → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1856 • SCRAPE to bow mowing the foot, to make obeisance → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1883 • SCRAP to bow, to make obeisance → Eng. dial.
1895 • BINK to bow down, to bend, to lean forward awkwardly → Sc.
1898 • BOO to bow, to bend, to twist → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 • OBEISANCE to make a bow, to curtsy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 • BOB to bow low, to curtsy → Sc. (Bk.)
1930 • PULL ONE’S FOOT to make a bow or curtsey → Amer. dial.
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