- BOWED
- Showed respect
- Didn't play pizzicato
- Bent in reverence
- Acknowledged applause
- Played, as a fiddle
- Played violin or cello
- Took a curtain call
- Fiddled around
- Thanked the audience
- Reacted to applause
- Played, as a cello
- Bent in the wind
- Showed respect, in a way
- Played arco
- Knuckled under
- Responded to applause
- Greeted a monarch
- Like a G-string, sometimes
- Curved.
- Bent down.
- Cambered
- Inclined
- Yielded
- Arcuate
- Submitted
- Not erect
- Showing obsequiousness
- Excused oneself, with "out"
- Point to
- Bent at a curtain call
- Showing humility, say
- Greeted a king or queen, say
- Performed obeisance
- Showed obsequiousness
- Thanked the audience, in a way
- Did obeisance
- Played fiddle, say
- Acknowledged an ovation
- Acknowledged applause, perhaps
- Took a curtain call, perhaps
- Played, but not pizzicato
