Word Meanings - COWL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

gugel, OF. coule, goule; all fr. LL. cuculla, cucullus, fr. L. cucullus cap, hood; perh. akin to celare to conceal, cella cell. Cf. 1. A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The nname was also applied to the hood and garment together.

Additional info about word: COWL

gugel, OF. coule, goule; all fr. LL. cuculla, cucullus, fr. L. cucullus cap, hood; perh. akin to celare to conceal, cella cell. Cf. 1. A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The nname was also applied to the hood and garment together. What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl Pope. 2. A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilatingshaft, etc. 3. A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.

Related words: (words related to COWL)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• CELLARIST
  See CELLARER
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• GARMENT
  Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• CUCULLATE; CUCULLATED
  Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet. Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects. Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• GARMENTURE
  Clothing; dress.
• CELLAR
  A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
• ATTACH
  tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• CONCEALER
  One who conceals.
• COULEUR
  1. Color; -- chiefly used in a few French phrases, as couler de rose, color of rose; and hence, adjectively, rose-colored; roseate. 2. A suit of cards, as hearts or clubs; --used in some French games.
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• APPLIEDLY
  By application.
• ATTACHABLE
  Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.
• TOGETHER
  togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• OCELLATED
  1. Resembling an eye. 2. Marked with eyelike spots of color; as, the ocellated blenny. Ocellated turkey , the wild turkey of Central America
• PSEUDONAVICELLA
  See PSEUDONAVICULA
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.
• OCELLATE
  See OCELLATED
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• DUCHESSE D'ANGOULEME
  A variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor.
• OCELLARY
  Of or pertaining to ocelli.
• REATTACHMENT
  The act of reattaching; a second attachment.