Definitions for: Bowery

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

Webster (1913) Definition: Bow"er*y, a.
Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.

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

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.

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

Synonyms: leafy

See Also: Manhattan, street

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