Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BOW, v.i.

1. To bend; to curve; to be inflected; to bend, in token of reverence, respect or civility; often with down. This is the idol to which the world bows.
2. To stoop; to fall upon the knees. The people bowed upon their knees. – Judges.
3. To sink under pressure. They stoop; they bow down together. – Isaiah.