An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird, Pterodroma cahow, from Bermuda; the Bermuda petrel.
chowk
chowk
noun
(India, Pakistan) A courtyard.
(India, Pakistan) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
(India, Pakistan) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).
chows
chows
noun
plural of chow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chow
clown
clown
noun
(obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
(obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
A clownfish.
A person who acts in a silly fashion.
A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
A stupid or badly-behaved person.
verb
(intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion.
(transitive, African-American Vernacular) To ridicule.
cohow
cowal
cowal
noun
(Australia) A billabong, or stagnant pool.
cowan
cowan
noun
(Freemasonry) A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
(Scotland, obsolete, rare) A fishing-boat.
(in attributive use) Uninitiated, outside, “profane”.
(slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
cowed
cowed
adj
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cowed.
Frightened into submission.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cow
cowen
cowen
noun
Obsolete spelling of cowan (one uninitiated in the secrets of Freemasonry).
cower
cower
verb
(intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
(intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
(obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.
(transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.
cowes
cowes
Proper noun
A town on the north coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
cowey
cowie
cowie
noun
(Britain, Northumbria) A left-handed person.
(Britain, Northumbria) A pill, especially of the drug ecstasy.
cowle
cowls
cowls
noun
plural of cowl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cowl
cowry
cowry
noun
Alternative spelling of cowrie.
crowd
crowd
noun
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
(obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
(nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
(obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
(transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
(transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
crowe
crowl
crowl
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To make a growling noise, as the stomach.
crown
crown
adj
Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
noun
(African-American Vernacular, colloquial) A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.
(anatomy, dentistry) The part of a tooth above the gums.
(architecture) A kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.
(botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
(by extension) Any reward of victory or mark of honor.
(by extension, especially in law) The state, the government (headed by a monarch).
(chemistry) A monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location
(dentistry) A prosthetic covering for a tooth.
(firearms) A rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening
(forestry) The top of a tree.
(geometry) The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
(historical) A former pre-decimalization British coin worth five shillings.
(medicine) During childbirth, the appearance of the baby's head from the mother's vagina
(metonymically) The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.
(nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
(nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
(nautical) The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.
(paper) In American, a standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.
(paper) In England, a standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.
(religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
A whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.
A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.
Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the koruna, kruna, krone, korona.
Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.
Splendor; culmination; acme.
The dome of a furnace.
The highest part of a hill.
The highest part of an arch.
The knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.
The raised centre of a road.
The top section of a hat, above the brim.
The topmost part of the head.
The upper part of certain fruits, as the pineapple or strawberry, that is removed before eating.
The upper range of facets in a rose diamond.
verb
(archaic) past participle of crow
(board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
(firearms) To widen the opening of the barrel.
(medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
(military) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
(nautical) To lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.
(slang) being about to take a poop (usually trying to hold it in, derived from obstetric use: metaphor of "giving birth" to solid poo)
(transitive) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.
(video games) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
To declare (someone) a winner.
To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.
To hit on the head.
To place a crown on the head of.
crows
crows
noun
plural of crow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of crow
mowch
nowch
nowch
noun
Obsolete form of nouch.
osfcw
schow
scowl
scowl
noun
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Old workings of iron ore.
(by extension) Gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
verb
(intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
(intransitive, by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
(transitive) To express by a scowl.
(transitive) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
scows
scows
noun
plural of scow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scow
scrow
scrow
noun
(obsolete) A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.
(obsolete) A scroll.
uncow
wacko
wacko
adj
(informal) Amusingly eccentric or irrational.
intj
(Britain, dated) hurrah!
noun
(informal) An amusingly eccentric or irrational person.
wasco
wesco
wilco
wilco
intj
(radio communications) Used to indicate agreement and compliance.
noun
A species of South American tree, Anadenanthera colubrina.