outbow
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[edit]outbow (third-person singular simple present outbows, present participle outbowing, simple past and past participle outbowed)
- (transitive) To surpass in bowing.
- 1725–1728, [Edward Young], “(please specify the page)”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC:
- His character and gloves are ever clean, / And then he can outbow the bowing dean
References
[edit]“outbow”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.