Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COW'ING, ppr.

Depressing with fear.

COW'ISH, a.

Timorous; fearful; cowardly. [Little used.] – Shak.

COW'-KEEP-ER, n.

One whose business is to keep cows. – Broome.

COWL, n. [contracted from Sax. cugle, cugele; L. cucullus; Ir. cochal; Sp. cogulla; Port. cogula, cucula.]

1. A monk's hood, or habit, worn by the Bernardines and Benedictines. It is either white or black. What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl? – Pope.
2. A vessel to be carried on a pole betwixt two persons, for the conveyance of water. – Johnson.

COWL'ED, a.

Wearing a cowl; hooded; in shape of a cowl; as a cowled leaf.

COW'-LEECH, n. [See Leech.]

One who professes to heal the diseases of cows.

COW'-LEECH-ING, n.

The act or art of healing the distempers of cows. – Mortimer.

COW'-LICK, n.

A tuft of hair that appears as if licked by a cow.

COW'LIKE, a.

Resembling a cow. – Pope.

COWL'-STAFF, n.

A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons. – Suckling.

CO-WORK'ER, n.

One that works with another; a cooperator.

COW'-PARS-NEP, n.

A plant of the genus Heracleum.

COW'-PEN, n.

A pen for cows.

COW'-POX, n.

The vaccine disease.

COW'-QUAKES, n.

Quaking grass, the Briza, a genus of plants.

COW'RY, n.

A small shell, the Cypræa moneta, used for coin in Africa and the East Indies. Also, other shells of the genus Cypræa.

COW'SLIP, or COW'S'-LIP, n.

A plant of the genus Primula, or primrose, of several varieties. The American cowslip belongs to the genus Dodecatheon; the Jerusalem and mountain cowslip, to the genus Pulmonaria.

COW'S'-LUNG-WORT, n.

A plant of the genus Verbascum.

COW'-TREE, n. [Sp. palo de vaca.]

A tree of South America which produces milk, a nourishing fluid; the Galactodendron utile. – Humboldt.

COW'-WEED, n.

A plant of the genus Chærophyllum, or chervil.

COW'-WHEAT, n.

A plant of the genus Melampyrum.

COX'COMB, n. [cock's comb.]

1. The top of the head. – Shak.
2. The comb resembling that of a cock, which licensed fools wore formerly in their caps. – Shak.
3. A fop; a vain showy fellow; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments. – Dryden. Pope.
4. A kind of red flower; a name given to a species of Celosia and some other plants.

COX'COMB-LY, a.

Like a coxcomb. [Not used.] – Beaum.

COX'COMB-RY, n.

The manners of a coxcomb. – Ec. Rev.

COX-COM'IC-AL, a.

Foppish; vain; conceited; a low word.