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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U.S.Hist.] The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing." Bancroft.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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