bower

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A shaded, leafy recess; an arbor.
2. n. A woman's private chamber in a medieval castle; a boudoir.
3. n. A rustic cottage; a country retreat.
4. v. To enclose in or as if in a bower; embower.
5. n. Nautical An anchor carried at the bow.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A dwelling or habitation; particularly, a cottage; an unpretentious residence; a rustic abode.
2. n. An inner room; any room in a house except the hall or public room; hence, a bedchamber.
3. n. Especially, a lady's private chamber; a boudoir.
4. n. A shelter made with boughs or twining plants; an arbor; a shady recess.
5. To inclose in a bower, or as in a bower; embower; inclose.
6. To take shelter; lodge.
7. n. One who or that which bows or bends; specifically, a muscle that bends the joints.
8. n. An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. The two bower-anchors were formerly of unequal size, and were called the best and small bower respectively; but when (as generally now) of equal size, they are known as the starboard and port bowers.
9. n. In falconry, a young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and to clamber on the boughs. Also called bowess, bowet.
10. n. A peasant; a farmer.
11. n. In euchre, one of the two highest cards, or, if the joker is used, the second or third highest. The bowers are the knave of trumps, the higher of the two, called the right bower, and the knave of the suit having the same color as the trump, called the left bower.
12. n. A bow-maker; a bowyer.
13. n. One who plays with a bow on a violin or other stringed instrument.
14. n. A person who rents or leases the dairy stock on a farm, together with pasture and fodder for them, and makes what he can from their produce, the cultivation of the farm still remaining with the farmer or proprietor.

Wiktionary

1. n. A woman's bedroom or private apartments, especially in a medieval castle.
2. n. literary A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
3. n. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
4. n. ornithology A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
5. n. A peasant; a farmer.
6. n. Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
7. n. nautical A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
8. n. obsolete, falconry A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who bows or bends.
2. n. (Naut.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
3. n. obsolete A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
4. n. One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
5. n. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
6. n. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
7. n. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
8. v. To embower; to inclose.
9. v. obsolete To lodge.
10. n. (Falconry), obsolete A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. enclose in a bower
2. n. a framework that supports climbing plants