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6 words match “ROWEN”

ROWEN n. 2 definitions
n the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle. Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. Mortimer.
AFTERMATH n.
A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.
MYTHIC; MYTHICAL a.
The mythic turf where danced the nymphs. Mrs. Browning. Hengist and Horsa, Vortigern and Rowena, Arthur and Mordred, are mythical persons, whose very existence may be questioned. Macaulay.
ROUGHINGS n.
Rowen. [Prov. Eng.]
ROWETT n.
See Rowen.
WASSAIL n.
e one. Geoffrey of Monmouth relates, on the authority of Walter Calenius, that this lady [Rowena], the daughter of Hengist, knelt down on the approach of the king, and, presenting him with a cup of wine, exclaimed, Lord king wæs heil, that is, literally, Health be to you. N. Drake.