Bowyers

Bowyers
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this Company was incorporated Anno 1622; but had been a Fraternity long before; and the Company doubtless more eminent when the long Bow was more in Use, before the Invention of Gun-powder. Their Arms are Argent upon a Chevron between three Floats, as many Mullets.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

Bouˊtefeu * Braˊnches [with Architects]
Blooˊd hounds
Blood Strange, or Blood Wort
Boˊlus
Bolus [with Physicians]
Bolus [according to Dr. Grew]
Bombs
Bomb [Hieroglyphically]
Bordeˊllo
Boviˊllans [with Cooks]
Bouˊtefeu
Bowyers
Braˊnches [with Architects]
Bumiceˊlli [among the Africans]
Burlˊesk, or Burle’sque
Caiˊsson