Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant found in the valley of the Columbia river, probably some species of Peucedanum. The root is of the size of a walnut, and resembles in taste the sweet potato.
- Timorous; fearful; cowardly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (
Peucedanum Cous ) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon. - adjective rare Timorous; fearful; cowardly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum cous) withedible tuberous roots , found inOregon ,USA .
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BOROWITZ: You know, given that she likes to sue people, I really want to give Amy tremendous credit for calling her "cowish" on television.
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The air blowing through the vents in my classroom has a sour, cowish scent to it.
scorpi07 Diary Entry scorpi07 2007
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She was looking sort of cowish, you know, well beyond her "Chicago" days.
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Providence, and to prevent the abuse of these mercies by cowish gambols.
Rosin the Beau Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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Gloster, for Regan, is an ingrateful fox: Albany, for his wife, has a cowish spirit and is milk-liver'd: when Edgar as the
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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The cowish, also, or biscuit root, about the size of a walnut, which they reduce to a very palatable flour; together with the jackap, aisish, quako, and others; which they cook by steaming them in the ground.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1850
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The cowish, also, or biscuit root, about the size of a walnut, which they reduce to a very palatable flour; together with the jackap, aisish, quako, and others; which they cook by steaming them in the ground.
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The cowish, also, or biscuit root, about the size of a walnut, which they reduce to a very palatable flour; together with the jackap, aisish, quako, and others; which they cook by steaming them in the ground.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Washington Irving 1821
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