\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.