Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk.
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One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.
Healing the distemper of cows.
A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.
Resembling a cow.
A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons.
One who works with another; a cooperator.
The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States.
See Cowpox.
a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback; -- an informal name for cowboy.
A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock.
A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass.
Same as Kauri.
A marine shell of the genus Cypr/a.
domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; as, wait till the cows come home.
a barn for cows.
leather from the skin of a cow.
A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.
Adorned with cowslips.
Same as Cow parsley.
A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.
A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.
The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.
Pain in the hip.
A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps. The cap itself.
Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited.
like a coxcomb.
The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.
Coxcombical.
Conceitedly.
See Cockswain.
To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity.
the offspring of a coyote and a dog.
Somewhat coy or reserved.
In a coy manner; with reserve.
The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.
a tropical American palm (Acrocomia vinifera) having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber.
A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.
A low rhamnaceous shrub (Karwinskia humboldtiana) of the southwestern United States and Mexico. Its berries are said to be poisonous to the coyote.
A South American rodent (Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria.
Same as Coistril.
A contraction of cousin.
To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.
The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud.
One who cheats or defrauds.
See Cosier.
Snugly; comfortably.
The state or quality of being cozy.
A wadded covering, often decorative, for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot. Also called tea cozy
a certified public accountant; an accountant certified by the state.
the consumer price index, an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer. The increase of this value each year is one measure of monetary inflation.
Sour; rough; austere.
A disease in the West Indies. It is a kind of ulcer on the soles of the feet, with very hard edges. See Yaws.
Characterized by or manifesting, sourness, peevishness, or moroseness; harsh; cross; cynical; -- applied to feelings, disposition, or manners.
One who catches crabs.
The act or art of catching crabs.
Somewhat sour or cross.
Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
The cobia. An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus). A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).
The water rat.
Having a sour, disagreeable countenance.
To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular].
A stick, cane, or cudgel, made of the wood of the crab tree.
To scratch.
Of superior excellence; having qualities to be boasted of; as, a crack shot.
Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; extremely foolish; crazy; as, crackbrained notions.
Of marked ability or excellence.
A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor.
Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
One who, or that which, cracks.
Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
characteristic of country life; as, cracker-barrel philosophy.
a creeping red-berried perenial herb (Cornus canadensis) distinguished by clustered leaf whorls at tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska.
Of marked ability or excellence.
crazy.
same as groovy, sense 1.
The noise of slight and frequent cracks or reports; a crackling.
Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.
See Crackle, n., 3.
The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
A hard brittle cake or biscuit.
a whimsically eccentric person.
A burglar.
Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland.
A lively Polish dance, in 2-4 time.
Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century.
To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.
Land or region where one was cradled; hence, land of origin.
a quiet song that lulls a child to sleep.
The act of using a cradle.
To play tricks; to practice artifice.
With craft; artfully; cunningly.
Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.
Without craft or cunning.
One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.
The work of a craftsman.
One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning.
Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
The neck or throat
Full of crags, or steep, broken rocks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.
The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.
The state of being craggy.
Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain.
One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves.
See Crare.
A creel or osier basket.
Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.
See Crowberry.
One who boasts; a braggart.
The act of cramming.
A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.
One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.
Crimson.
Knotty; difficult.
See Cramp, n., 2.
a deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub (Viburnum opulus) with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries.
inconveniently small; restricting movement; -- of living quarters or workspace; as, cramped quarters; a cramped office.
A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.
The torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.
See Crampet.
An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
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