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Any plant of the genus Rudbeckia; -- so called from the cone- shaped disk of the flower head. Also, any plant of the related genera Ratibida and Brauneria, the latter usually known as purple coneflower.

The shotproof pilot house of a war vessel.

A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.

ing 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.

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. Fairholt.

A crossbowman.[Obs.]

A kind of campion; according to Gerarde, the Lychnis Flos- cuculi.

A species of Cardamine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.

Same as Deflour. An earthquake . . . deflowering the gardens. W. Montagu. If a man had deflowered a virgin. Milton.

See Deflourer. Milton.

One who disavows.

To disembowel. [R.] Spenser.

To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson.

The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration.

Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [Poetic] Bryant.

To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.

A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it. Dowel joint, a joint secured by a dowel or dowels. -- Dowel pin, a dowel. See Dowel, n.,

That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift. How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower! Sir J. Davies. Man in his primeval dower arrayed. Wordsworth.

Furnished with, or as with, dower or a marriage portion. Shak.