Word Meanings - COWHAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculæ are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• STICK-LAC
  See LAC
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• STICKING
  a. & n. from Stick, v. Sticking piece, a piece of beef cut from the neck. -- Sticking place, the place where a thing sticks, or remains fast; sticking point. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. Shak. --
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• CLIMB
  To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with
• CROOKES TUBE
  A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• SPICULA
  A little spike; a spikelet. A pointed fleshy appendage.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• CROOKBACK
  A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• CROOKNECK
  Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• POKING-STICK
  A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• UNWITCH
  To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft. B. Jonson.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• QUITCH
  See TENNYSON
• PIG-STICKING
  Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians. Tackeray.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.