[f. BOW sb.1 6.] trans. and intr. To play with or use the bow (on a violin, etc.).
1838. W. Gardiner, Music Nat., 202. A single bar of music … may be bowed fifty-four different ways.
1861. Times, 16 Oct. His artists and amateurs bow and finger in thoroughly good style.
1864. G. Meredith, Emilia, xxv. 194. How differently he bows from the other men, though it is only dance music.
