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The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium) Dr. Prior.

An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.

To illuminate. [Obs.] Cowley.

Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. "In a cowslip's bell I lie." Shak.

To bewilder. Intellects bemazed in endless doubt. Cowper.

n anchor. Totten. To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. Camden.

A woman who confers a benefit. His benefactress blushes at the deed. Cowper.

ity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.

riety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot. Cowper .

To sweep, as with a besom. [Archaic or Poetic] Cowper. Rolls back all Greece, and besoms wide the plain. Barlow.

with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.

To give or confer; to impart; -- with on or upon. Empire is on us bestowed. Cowper. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor. 1 Cor. xiii. 3.

The first milk given by a cow after calving. B. Jonson. The thick and curdy milk . . . commonly called biestings. Newton. (1574).

her water, caused usually by violent wind. Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll. Cowper.

gin or commencement. Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next The birthday of invention. Cowper.

An usher in the legislature of British colonies. Cowell. Committed to the custody of the Black Rod. Macaulay.

calus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelæus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.

ness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement. Cowering low with blandishment. Milton. Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay.

re pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow. Trumbull. To blazon his own worthless name. Cowper.

blind; to hoodwink. That tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight. Cowper. To blear the eye of, to deceive; to impose upon. [Obs.] Chaucer.