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e columbine or the bluebell squill (Scilla nutans). [Obs.] A girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips to make garlands. Walton.

Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower. The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. Shenstone.

ormal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve. Cowper. The elegant curvature of their fronds. Darwin.

A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. Cowell.

A genus of mollusks, including the cowries. See Cowrie.

c roses and daffadowndillies set. Spenser. Strow me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies. Spenser. A college gown That clad her like an April Daffodilly. Tennyson And chance-sown daffodil. Whittier.

stop up; to close; to restrain. The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt behind, and cowards. Shak. To dam out, to keep out by means of a dam.

One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Shak.

To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardize my courage. Dryden.

The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.

Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.

Base timidity; cowardliness.

To repress or subdue the courage of; to check by fear of danger; to cow; to intimidate; to dishearten. Some presences daunt and discourage us. Glanvill.

he can arrive to the height of sin. South. Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes. Cowley.

Industrious; active. [R.] Cowper.

A judge in the Isle of Man who decides controversies without process. Cowell.

s the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth. Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs. Cowley. The hollow deep of hell resounded. Milton. Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound. Pope.

character that unfits for earnest action. You know your mother's delicacy in this point. Cowper.

To deify in part. Cowper.

orts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. Cowper.