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Bow-dye


BOW-DYE, noun A kind of scarlet color, superior to madder, but inferior to the true scarlet grain for fixedness, and duration; first used at Bow, near London.

BOW'-GRACE, noun In sea language, a frame or composition of junk, laid out at the sides, stem, or bows of ships to secure them from injury by ice.