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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.

To make a monk (or wearer of a cowl) of. [R.] Drayton.

g or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. She scowled and frowned with froward countenance. Spenser.

In a scowling manner.

To divest or deprive of a cowl. Pope.

Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees. Cowley.

To illuminate. [Obs.] Cowley.

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

To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley.

mstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war. Shak. Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way. Cowley.

A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.

ow of a precipice; the brow of a hill. To bend the brow, To knit the brows, to frown; to scowl.

Coarse and rough; boisterous. It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense. Cowley.

Hooded; cowled.