bowing
boh ing
- n bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting
- n managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument
the violinist's bowing was excellent - v bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head
- v yield to another's wish or opinion
- v bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting
- v bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- v play on a string instrument with a bow
- s showing an excessively deferential manner
- Opined a brash new newsmagazine: "Last week loud applause came to a young actress who found herself bowing to bravos as featured player of the season's first hit, while her .
- Violinist Stern soon developed a scholar's yen for analyzing music and a distaste for studying technique (although an interest in the problems of bowing once led him to study the .
- Robert DeBerry The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman AP In bowing out as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin harked back to her high schoolbasketball days although there was no .