Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bower \Bo"wer\, n. [From {Bow}, v. & n.]
   1. One who bows or bends.

   2. (Naut.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.

   3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.]

            His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were
            wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.
                                                  --Spenser.

   {Best bower}, {Small bower}. See {the Note under Anchor}.

Bower \Bow"er\ (bou"[~e]r), n. [G. bauer a peasant. So called
   from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See
   {Boor}.]
   One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the
   game of euchre.

   {Right bower}, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card
      (except the ``Joker'') in the game.

   {Left bower}, the knave of the other suit of the same color
      as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value.
      

   {Best bower} or {Joker}, in some forms of euchre and some
      other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack,
      which takes precedence of all others as the highest card.

Bower \Bow"er\, n. [OE. bour, bur, room, dwelling, AS. b[=u]r,
   fr. the root of AS. b[=u]an to dwell; akin to Icel. b[=u]r
   chamber, storehouse, Sw. b[=u]r cage, Dan. buur, OHG. p[=u]r
   room, G. bauer cage, bauer a peasant. [root]97] Cf.{Boor},
   {Byre}.]
   1. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's
      private apartment.

            Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the
            doors of mine unlucky bower.          --Gascoigne.

   2. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode
      or retreat. --Shenstone. B. Johnson.

   3. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs
      of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a
      shady recess.

Bower \Bow"er\, v. t.
   To embower; to inclose. --Shak.

Bower \Bow"er\, v. i.
   To lodge. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Bower \Bow"er\, n. [From {Bough}, cf. {Brancher}.] (Falconry)
   A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obs.]

Source : WordNet®

bower
     n : a framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor
         provided a shady resting place in the park" [syn: {arbor},
          {arbour}, {pergola}]
     v : enclose in a bower [syn: {embower}]