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Definition of Bowlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a bow (bent frame for firing arrows) or some aspect of one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bowlike
1. curved [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowlike
Literary usage of Bowlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"... and burnt his uncle's house at bowlike, Walter Butler again fell upon the
enemy, killing sixty of them, with two of their leaders, and recovering a ..."
2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1906)
"... nearly east and west; and along the Atlantic, northwest-southeast. This bowlike
trend of the basal ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1909)
"All mental phenomena are as such but rain- bowlike appearances. The seeming
steadfastness of the world figured in visual perception rests in phenomenal ..."
4. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"Here it is palliated by a certain feeling for beauty, which, if we forget for a
moment the period of suspension, strikes us in the elastic and bowlike form ..."
5. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"... which, if we forget for a moment the period of suspension, strikes us in the
elastic and bowlike form of the bad thief. He seems, too, to have borrowed ..."
6. Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1882)
"... or the golden dust Shrined in a maiden lily's heart of hearts, Yet a stern
will bent bowlike, with the shaft Of some keen purpose swiftly drawn to head, ..."
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