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A field where grass for hay has been cut; a meadow. Cowper.

A young cow.

Cowardly; timid; chicken-hearted. Udall.

The character or personality of a hero. "Three years of heroship." Cowper.

That which hinders; an impediment. What various hindrances we meet. Cowper. Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

, originally from Schleswig-Holstein, valued for the large amount of milk produced by the cows. The color is usually black and white in irregular patches.

To cause to pay homage. [Obs.] Cowley.

Of or pertaining to the home or family. Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness. Cowper.

Place of a home; homestead. Cowper.

A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended. Cowell.

A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl. "All hoods make not monks." Shak.

constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow. Bell and hopper (Metal.), the apparatus at the top of a blast furnace, through which the charge is introduced, while the gases are retained. -- Hopper boy, a rake in a mill, moving in a circle to spread meal for drying, and…

To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.

ce to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. The hoy went to London every week. Cowper.

d contempt of religion the sole badge . . . of wit. South. To take huff, to take offence. Cowper.

To cower; to crouch; to curl up. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

ent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley.

Having no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow. [Scot.]

One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred. Blount. Cowell.

A case for sewing materials. See Housewife. Cowper.