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EMBOWL v.
To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
ENCOWL v.
To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of. [R.] Drayton.
FELLOWLESS a.
Without fellow or equal; peerless. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman.
FELLOWLIKE a.
Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. [Obs.] Udall.
FELLOWLY a.
Fellowlike. [Obs.] Shak.
FOREKNOWLEDGE n.
Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton.
FOWL n. 3 definitions
p., any large edible bird. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air. Gen. i. 26. Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not. Matt. vi. 26. Like a flight of fowl Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts. Shak.
FOWLER n.
A sportsman who pursues wild fowl, or takes or kills for food.
FOWLER'S SOLUTION n.
. An Fowler, an English physician who first brought it into use.
FOWLERITE n.
A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.
GAIRFOWL n.
See Garefowl.
GAME FOWL n.
A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.
GAREFOWL n.
The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk. [Written also gairfowl, and gurfel.]
GLOWLAMP n. 2 definitions
An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
GOWL v.
To howl. [Obs.] Wyclif.
GROWL v. 3 definitions
To express by growling. Thomson.
GROWLER n. 3 definitions
One who growls.
GROWLINGLY adv.
In a growling manner.
HOLLOWLY adv.
Insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.
HORNOWL n.
See Horned Owl.
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