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