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Dried cow dung used as fuel.[Prov. Eng.] Simmonds.

A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.

A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot. [U.S.]

See Kauri.

ding the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.

The grampus.

spiculæ are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge. [Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]

Cowardly. The Lady Powis . . . patted him with her fan, and called him a cowhearted fellow. R. North.

One whose occupation is to tend cows.

The hide of a cow.

Timorous; fearful; cowardly. [R.] Shak.

See Cowhage.

also applied to the hood and garment together. What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl Pope.

Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk. "That cowled churchman." Emerson.

One who heals disease 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. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope.

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

One who works with another; a co