These are the meanings of the letters BOWIE when you unscramble them.
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Bow (v. t.)
To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
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Bow (v. t.)
To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
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Bow (v. t.)
To bend or incline, as the head or body, in token of respect, gratitude, assent, homage, or condescension.
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Bow (v. t.)
To cause to bend down; to prostrate; to depress,;/ to crush; to subdue.
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Bow (v. t.)
To express by bowing; as, to bow one's thanks.
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Bow (v. i.)
To bend; to curve.
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Bow (v. i.)
To stop.
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Bow (v. i.)
To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.
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Bow (v. i.)
To incline the head in token of salutation, civility, or assent; to make bow.
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Bow (n.)
An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, a bow of deep humility.
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Bow (v. t.)
Anything bent, or in the form of a curve, as the rainbow.
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Bow (v. t.)
A weapon made of a strip of wood, or other elastic material, with a cord connecting the two ends, by means of which an arrow is propelled.
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Bow (v. t.)
An ornamental knot, with projecting loops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.
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Bow (v. t.)
The U-shaped piece which embraces the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
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Bow (v. t.)
An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.
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Bow (v. t.)
An arcograph.
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Bow (v. t.)
Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging the hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
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Bow (v. t.)
A rude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
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Bow (sing. or pl.)
Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
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Bow (v. i.)
To play (music) with a bow.
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Bow (v. i. )
To manage the bow.
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Bow (n.)
The bending or rounded part of a ship forward; the stream or prow.
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Bow (n.)
One who rows in the forward part of a boat; the bow oar.
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Obi (n.)
A species of sorcery, probably of African origin, practiced among the negroes of the West Indies.
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Obi (n.)
A charm or fetich.
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Owe (v.)
To possess; to have, as the rightful owner; to own.
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Owe (v.)
To have or possess, as something derived or bestowed; to be obliged to ascribe (something to some source); to be indebted or obliged for; as, he owed his wealth to his father; he owed his victory to his lieutenants.
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Owe (v.)
Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or render (something) in return or compensation for something received; to be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate.
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Owe (v.)
To have an obligation to (some one) on account of something done or received; to be indebted to; as, to iwe the grocer for supplies, or a laborer for services.
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Web (n.)
A weaver.
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Web (n.)
That which is woven; a texture; textile fabric; esp., something woven in a loom.
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Web (n.)
A whole piece of linen cloth as woven.
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Web (n.)
The texture of very fine thread spun by a spider for catching insects at its prey; a cobweb.
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Web (n.)
Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
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Web (n.)
A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood.
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Web (n.)
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
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Web (n.)
The blade of a sword.
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Web (n.)
The blade of a saw.
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Web (n.)
The thin, sharp part of a colter.
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Web (n.)
The bit of a key.
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Web (n.)
A plate or thin portion, continuous or perforated, connecting stiffening ribs or flanges, or other parts of an object.
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Web (n.)
The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail.
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Web (n.)
A disk or solid construction serving, instead of spokes, for connecting the rim and hub, in some kinds of car wheels, sheaves, etc.
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Web (n.)
The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.
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Web (n.)
The part of a blackmith's anvil between the face and the foot.
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Web (n.)
Pterygium; -- called also webeye.
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Web (n.)
The membrane which unites the fingers or toes, either at their bases, as in man, or for a greater part of their length, as in many water birds and amphibians.
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Web (n.)
The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feather.
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Web (v. t.)
To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.
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Woe (n.)
Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
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Woe (n.)
A curse; a malediction.
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Woe (a.)
Woeful; sorrowful.