† Bowable

a. Obs. [f. BOW v.¹ + -ABLE.]

  1.  That may be bowed or bent; flexible, pliable.

1483.  Cath. Angl., 38. Bowabylle, vbi pliabylle.

1583.  Stubbes, Anat. Abus. (1877), I. 76. It is flexible and bowable to any thing a man can desire.

1611.  Cotgr., Ployable, pliable, bowable, bendable.

  2.  fig. Complaisant.

c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., 200. Make the patroun (that is to seie Crist) to be to us inclineable or boweable or redi to heere us.

1623.  Wodroephe, Marrow Fr. Tongue, 323 (L.). If she be a virgin, she is pliable or bowable.

  Hence Bowableness.

c. 1475.  Found. St. Barthol. Ch., I. xxvii. (1886), 63. The synowys were dryed up & alweys lackid bowablenesse.