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Meaning of "cowage" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COWAGE

From Hindi kavāch, of obscure origin.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COWAGE

cowage  [ˈkaʊɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COWAGE

noun
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verb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cowage is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COWAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bremilham

Coordinates: 51°34′N 2°08′W / 51.57°N 2.14°W / 51.57; -2.14 "Cowage" redirects here. You may be looking for Mucuna pruriens Bremilham, also known as Cowage or Cowich, is a small settlement and former civil parish in Wiltshire, England. Its nearest town is Malmesbury, about 2 miles away to the north east. The place-name 'Bremilham' is first attested in 1065, as 'Bremelham', and means 'village where brambles or blackberries grew'. Bremilham's tiny Church of England parish church claims to be the smallest in England, measuring ten feet by eleven feet. It still holds one service a year. Its dedication is unknown, and the parish registers go back only to 1813. In 1831, the population of the parish was 33. On some present-day maps, only Cowage Farm is shown.

Definition of cowage in the English dictionary

The definition of cowage in the dictionary is a tropical climbing leguminous plant, Stizolobium pruriens, whose bristly pods cause severe itching and stinging. Other definition of cowage is the pods of this plant or the stinging hairs covering them.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COWAGE


advantage
ədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
age
eɪdʒ
average
ˈævərɪdʒ
bridge
brɪdʒ
college
ˈkɒlɪdʒ
coverage
ˈkʌvərɪdʒ
cowhage
ˈkaʊɪdʒ
damage
ˈdæmɪdʒ
escuage
ˈɛskjʊɪdʒ
flowage
ˈfləʊɪdʒ
heritage
ˈhɛrɪtɪdʒ
image
ˈɪmɪdʒ
knowledge
ˈnɒlɪdʒ
language
ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ
manage
ˈmænɪdʒ
marriage
ˈmærɪdʒ
message
ˈmɛsɪdʒ
stowage
ˈstəʊɪdʒ
towage
ˈtəʊɪdʒ
viduage
ˈvɪdjʊɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COWAGE

cow college
cow dung
Cow Gum
cow parsley
cow parsnip
cow pillow
cow pony
cow shark
cow tree
cow-spanker
cowal
cowan
coward
cowardice
cowardliness
cowardly
cowardry
cowardship
cowbane
cowbell

WORDS THAT END LIKE COWAGE

award wage
basic wage
brewage
living wage
minimum wage
nonwage
sewage
strewage
subsistence wage
swage
tasswage
wage

Synonyms and antonyms of cowage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cowage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COWAGE

Find out the translation of cowage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cowage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cowage» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cowage
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cowage
570 millions of speakers

English

cowage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cowage
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ميقونة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

cowage
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cowage
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cowage
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cowage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cowage
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cowage
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cowage
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cowage
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cowok
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

cowage
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cowage
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कांगारू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cowage
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cowage
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cowage
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

cowage
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cowage
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

cowage
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

cowage
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

cowage
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cowage
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cowage

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COWAGE»

The term «cowage» is used very little and occupies the 187.889 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COWAGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cowage» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cowage» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cowage

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COWAGE»

Discover the use of cowage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cowage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Angel Came at Dawn
So they blanketed the school with cowage, which was locally known as cowitch. The cowage vine grew on trees in the forest. People in India and other tropical places used the cowage for medicinal purposes. But in the Caribbean it was used ...
R. V. Williams, 2005
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Guide to Afro-Cuban Herbalism
PICAPICA/. COWAGE. (Mucuna pruriens) Other names: Kongo - Ote Lukumi - Sisi, Iseliye, Rira, Aguanara, Aina Nicaragua - Gusano de pica pica U.S. - Cow itch Description Leguminous climbing plant, with long, slender branches, alternate, ...
Dalia Quiros-Moran, 2009
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The Oxford Companion to Food
cowage. (cowitch) See velvet bean. cowberry. See cranberry. cow. hair. See hairmoss. cowpea. Vigna unguiculata, an annual leg- ume which exists in many forms. It originated in Africa but soon spread to Europe, where it was known during ...
Alan Davidson, Tom Jaine, 2014
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A History of Wiltshire
Cowage brook has deposited a small amount of alluvium along the north-western boundary, where the land lies below 70 m.49 Cowage's land is suitable for both arable and pasture.50 In 1377 Compton Bassett had 126 poll-tax payers and ...
Ralph Bernard Pugh, Elizabeth Crittall, D. A. Crowley, 1957
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The Archaeological Journal
The large structures all come from the sites of Cowdery's Down (Millett .1983, 215 -22) and Cowage Farm, Foxley (Hinchcliffe 1983). At Cowage Farm, structure A was 18 by 9 metres, structure B1 was 20 by 10 metres, structure B2 was 17 by 10  ...
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The Literary Panorama, and National Register: A Review of ...
Some use mechanical remedies, as levigated tin, cowage, 8:0. to destroy them with an armed force as Dr. Saunders says. Hair taken from the head, and cut very small, answers the purpcs: of the latter {or cowage), and is frequently given in ...
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... F596) xx Cattle trade Frontier and pioneer life Gauchos Herders Horsemen and horsewomen Ranch life Cowhage x Cowage Cowitch Dolichos pruriens Mucuna pruriens Phaseolus zuratensis siliqua hirsuta Stizoloba pruriens xx Worms, ...
Library of Congress, 1986
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Archaeology, Economy and Society: England from the Fifth to ...
Cowage Farm has one building unlike any so far recognised at the other abandoned settlements, being rectangular with an eastern apse and contained in its enclosure slightly apart from the rest of the complex. The obvious interpretation is ...
David A. Hinton, 2002
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Micrographia Illustrata: Or, The Microscope Explained ... ...
The other parts of the leaf or surface of the nettle have very little confiderable, but what is common to most plants, as the ruggedness, indenting, and hairiness, and other roughnesses of the surface, on the outfide of the plant. t Of cowage, ...
George Adams, 1771
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
L521 UF Cowage Cowitch Dolichos pruriens Mucuna pruriens Phaseolus zuratensis siliqua hirsuta Stizoloba pruriens BT Mucuna Cowheard family USE Coward family Cowher family (Not Subd Geog) UF Cougher family Cowherd family USE ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2005

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COWAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cowage is used in the context of the following news items.
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Prime Swindon office move for Malmesbury IT firm points to strength …
The firm, one of the first Microsoft Gold Partners (SME) in the UK, has spent 15 years working from Cowage Farm in Malmesbury. But the need ... «Swindon Business News, Jun 15»
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Ebola is frightening, but so are the prejudices such outbreaks provoke
It is by a similar process that the prickly plant known as cowage in England is rendered as “cow itch” in Jamaica. We seem to have a thing for ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
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Former RAU student, charged with illegal hunting, escapes …
It is alleged that the former student and huntsmen took part in an illegal hare hunt at Cowage Farm in the village of Foxley near Malmesbury. «Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard, Nov 13»
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Britain's smallest church measuring 13ft by 11ft holds annual service …
Afterwards, there was a small party organised by the church's owner, Bindy Collins, who lives on the Cowage Farm. She said: 'We have to pay ... «Daily Mail, May 13»
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Malmesbury's smallest "in service" church holds service
Before being constituted as a church, the tiny building was used by the owners of Cowage Farm to house turkeys. But Bindy Collins, the farm's ... «BBC News, May 13»
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Tiny St Trillo's Church fears losing "smallest in UK" crown
Bremilham Church, on Cowage Farm at Foxley, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, has a single pew with space for four people and standing room for ... «WalesOnline, Mar 12»
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Unbearable itch may no longer be a pain in anaesthesia
The spines of a tropical plant called cowage can irritate the skin and produce an itch that does not respond to antihistamines. To find out if the ... «New Scientist, Oct 11»

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