Vocabulary : Bovey coal to Bowbell
Bovey coal : A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era.Bovid : Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.
Boviform : Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.
Bovine : Of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope. ;; Having qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament.
Bow : To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. ;; To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline. ;; To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension. ;; To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue. ;; To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks. ;; To bend; to curve. ;; To stop. ;; To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down. ;; To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow. ;; An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility. ;; Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow. ;; A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled. ;; An ornamental knot, with projecti
