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彎如弓的,有弓的

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bow \Bow\ (b[=o]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bowed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bowing}.]
   To play (music) with a bow. -- v. i. To manage the bow.

Bow \Bow\ (bou), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bowing}.] [OE. bowen, bogen, bugen, AS. b[=u]gan (generally
   v. i.); akin to D. buigen, OHG. biogan, G. biegen, beugen,
   Icel. boginn bent, beygja to bend, Sw. b["o]ja, Dan. b["o]ie,
   bugne, Coth. biugan; also to L. fugere to flee, Gr. ?, and
   Skr. bhuj to bend. [root]88. Cf. {Fugitive}.]
   1. 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.           --Milton.

            The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind
            of tyranny.                           --Prescott.

   2. To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to
      bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.

            Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion.
                                                  --Bacon.

            Not to bow and bias their opinions.   --Fuller.

   3. 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.                    --2 Kings ii.
                                                  15.

   4. To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;? to
      crush; to subdue.

            Whose heavy hand hath bowed you to the grave.
                                                  --Shak.

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

資料來源 : WordNet®

bowed
     adj 1: used especially of the head or upper back; "a bent head and
            sloping shoulders" [syn: {bent}, {inclined}]
     2: of a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
        [ant: {plucked}]
     3: forming or resembling an arch; "an arched ceiling" [syn: {arced},
         {arched}, {arching}, {arciform}, {arcuate}]
     4: have legs that curve outward at the knees [syn: {bandy}, {bandy-legged},
         {bowleg}, {bowlegged}]
     5: showing an excessively deferential manner [syn: {bowing}]