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单词 cowe
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cowen.1

Brit. /kaʊ/, U.S. /kaʊ/, Scottish English /kʌʊ/
Etymology: < cow v.2
Scottish.
The act of ‘cowing’, cropping, or pruning; figurative a dressing, a cropping.
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1786 R. Burns Poems 216 But new-light herds gat sic a cowe, Folk thought them ruin'd stick-an-stowe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cowen.2

Forms: also cow.
Etymology: Variant of coe n.1
Obsolete.
= coe n.1 a.
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1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales Table Cowes are houses that the Miners build over their Groves.
1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 98 In their Houses, Cows, or any other place.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

cowen.3

Forms: also coue, kow, kowe.
Etymology: Variant of chough n.
Obsolete.
= chough n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > genus Pyrrhocorax > species graculus (chough)
cowec1230
Cornish crow1552
chough1553
sea-crow1579
killigrew1668
sea-chough1672
Cornish jay1750
red-legged crow1776
red-legged chough1831
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Þe hen hwen ha haueð ileid ne con bute cakelin. ah hwet biȝet ha þrof? kimeð þe kaue [a1250 Nero coue] ananriht & reaueð hire hire eairen.
c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 232 Shal bere hym on hond the Cow [v.r. cou, kow, kowe] is wood.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 702/3 Hec monedula, a kowe.
1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. f iv They canne flatter and lye, Makynge beleve the cowe is wode.
1575 J. Awdely Fraternitye of Vacabondes (new ed.) sig. B4v A pickthanke knaue, that would make his Maister beleue that the Cowe is woode.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

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