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Definition of Cowage
1. Noun. Pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey.
Generic synonyms: Pod, Seedpod
2. Noun. The annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing.
Generic synonyms: Mucuna
Definition of Cowage
1. n. See Cowhage.
Definition of Cowage
1. Noun. A leguminous climbing plant, of the genus ''Mucuna'', the spiculae of which are sometimes used as a mechanical vermifuge. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cowage
1. a tropical vine [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowage
Literary usage of Cowage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horticultural review and botanical magazine (1853)
"... and doubtless won- caused by the cowage effectually cured the \ \ dering "how
they came so." On the princi- [itch for stealing flowers.—Exchange. ..."
2. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1920)
"Tothill of 17 was probably the isolated hill marked by the 300 ft. contour at
cowage Gorse, the small wood on the E. by. of Foxley almost due E. of ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"J. SAN remarks that we have in English, borage, cabbage, cowage, ... cowage is
a word unknown to dictionaries. Spinach, or spinage, is borrowed from the ..."
4. Representative Men: Seven Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1903)
"The " cowage " of the first sentence was an herb which used to be prescribed ...
Montaigne good against bigots as cowage against worms, acts mechanically. ..."
5. Hudibras: A Poem by Samuel Butler (1822)
"cowage, vulgarly called cow-itch, is a species of kidney bean, ... Some modern
practitioners recommend cowage as a safe and efficacious vermifuge. V. 321-2. ..."
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