Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cowhage .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
cowhage .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
cowage .
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Examples
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The only food they possessed was tamarinds, prepared with ashes, and a little cowitch meal.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The cowitch, as mentioned before, has a velvety brown covering of minute prickles, which, if touched, enter the pores of the skin and cause a painful tingling.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The reeds are full of cowitch (Dolichos pruriens), the pods of which are covered with what looks a fine velvety down, but is in reality
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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There is about the scene a feeling of deep rural repose: the occasional buzz of a hornet, the halfhearted peck of an odd stray hen scratching amid the clumps of cowitch begonia, perhaps the soft flip-and-splash of a hooked perch in some nearby fern-banked pond, or a supperbound catfish in one of the creeks.
I Tina Turner, Tina 1952
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The cowitch, as mentioned before, has a velvety brown covering of minute prickles, which, if touched, enter the pores of the skin and cause a painful tingling.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843
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The only food they possessed was tamarinds, prepared with ashes, and a little cowitch meal.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843
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The reeds are full of cowitch (_Dolichos pruriens_), the pods of which are covered with what looks a fine velvety down, but is in reality a multitude of fine prickles, which go in by the million, and caused an itching and stinging in the naked bodies of those who were pulling the tow-rope, that made them wriggle as if stung by a whole bed of nettles.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843
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Police prepared tear gas and substances extracted from cowitch to disperse the red-shirt protesters on Wednesday's mass rally, according to United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) core member Nattawut Saikua.
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