[f. BOW sb.1 and v.2 + -ED1.] Furnished with a bow (in various senses); played with a (violin) bow. In Her. = EMBOWED.

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1425.  Acts Jas. I. (1597), § 60. Ȝeamen … sufficientlie bowed and schafted, with sword and buckler and knife.

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1823.  Rutter, Fonthill, 41. The window is to the west, large and bowed.

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1837.  Ht. Martineau, Soc. in Amer., III. 88. The young women, in cotton gowns and braided and bowed hair.

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1838.  G. Hogarth, Musical Hist., II. 153. Quartets, and trios, for bowed instruments.

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1885.  Pall Mall Gaz., 4 May, 4/1. The ‘bowed’ passages were much too rapid.

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