Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a.
   Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.

         A bowery maze that shades the purple streams.
                                                  --Trumbull.

Bowery \Bow"er*y\, n.; pl. {Boweries}. [D. bouwerij.]
   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.

Bowery \Bow"er*y\, a.
   Characteristic of the street called the {Bowery}, in New York
   city; swaggering; flashy.

Source : WordNet®

bowery
     adj : like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane"
     n : a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by
         homeless derelicts