Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BOW'ER, n.² [Sax. bur, a chamber or private apartment, a hut, a cottage; W. bwr, an inclosure.]

1. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees bent and twined together. It differs from arbor in that it may be round or square, whereas an arbor is long and arched. – Milton. Encyc.
2. A bed-chamber; any room in a house except the hall. – Spenser. Mason.
3. A country-seat; a cottage. – Shenstone. B. Jonson.
4. A shady recess; a plantation for shade. – W. Brown.