Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 140
Cow (v. t.) To depress with
fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.
To vanquish a people already cowed. -- Shak.
THe French king was cowed. -- J. R. Green.
Cow (n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock. -- Knight.
Cow (n.) Female of domestic cattle: "`moo-cow' is a child's term" [syn: cow, moo-cow].
Cow (n.) Mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'.
Cow (n.) A large unpleasant woman.
Cow (v.) Subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats) [syn: overawe, cow].
Cowage (n.) (Bot.) See Cowhage.
Cowhage (n.) (Bot.) A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spicul[ae] are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge. [Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]
Cowage (n.) Pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey.
Cowage (n.) 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 [syn: cowage, velvet bean, Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna aterrima, Stizolobium deeringiana].
Cowan (n.) One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship. [Scot.]
Note: Among Freemasons, it is a cant term for pretender, interloper.
Cowan, TN -- U.S. city in Tennessee
Population (2000): 1770
Housing Units (2000): 803
Land area (2000): 1.976428 sq. miles (5.118926 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.976428 sq. miles (5.118926 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17700
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.166668 N, 86.011839 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 37318
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cowan, TN
Cowan
Coward (a.) (Her.) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
Coward (a.) Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.
Fie, coward woman, and soft-hearted wretch. -- Shak.
Coward (a.) Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.
He raised the house with loud and coward cries. -- Shak.
Invading fears repel my coward joy. -- Proir.
Coward (n.) A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.
A fool is nauseous, but a coward worse. -- Dryden.
Syn: Craven; poltroon; dastard.
Coward (v. t.) To make timorous; to frighten. [Obs.]
That which cowardeth a man's heart. -- Foxe.
Coward (n.) A person who shows fear or timidity.
Coward (n.) English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973) [syn: Coward, Noel Coward, Sir Noel Pierce Coward].
Coward (n.) One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Coward, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
Population (2000): 650
Housing Units (2000): 263
Land area (2000): 3.423126 sq. miles (8.865856 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006545 sq. miles (0.016951 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.429671 sq. miles (8.882807 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17215
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 33.975560 N, 79.747097 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29530
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Coward, SC
Coward
Cowardice (n.) Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
The cowardice of doing wrong. -- Milton.
Moderation was despised as cowardice. -- Macaulay.
Cowardice (n.) The trait of lacking courage [syn: cowardice, cowardliness] [ant: braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness].
Cowardice. () Pusillanimity; fear.
Cowardice. () By the act for the better government of the navy of the United States, passed April 21, 1800, 1 Story, L. U. S. 761; it is enacted, art. 5, "every officer or private who shall not properly observe the orders of his commanding officer, or shall not use his utmost exertions to carry them into execution, when ordered to prepare for, join in, or when actually engaged in battle; or shall, at such time, basely desert his duty or station, either then, or while in sight of an enemy, or shall induce others to do so, every person so offending, shall, on conviction thereof by a general court martial, suffer death, or such other punishment as the said court shall adjudge.
Cowardice. () -Art. 6. "Every officer or private who shall, through cowardice, negligence, or disaffection, in the time of action, withdraw from, or keep out of battle, or shall not do his utmost to take or destroy every vessel which it is his duty to encounter, or shall not do his utmost endeavor to afford relief to ships belonging to the United States, every such offender shall, on conviction thereof by a general court martial, suffer death, or such other punishment as the said court shall adjudge."
Cowardice. () By the act for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States, passed April 10, 1806, it is enacted, art. 52, "any officer or soldier, who shall misbehave himself before the enemy, run away, or shamefully abandon any fort, post, or guard, which he or they may be commanded to defend, or speak, words inducing others to do the like, or shall cast away his arms and ammunition, or who shall quit his post or colors to plunder and pillage, every such offender, being duly convicted thereof, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by the sentence of a general court martial."
Cowardie (n.) Cowardice. [Obs.]
Cowardish (a.) Cowardly. [Obs.] "A base and a cowardish mind." -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Cowardize (v. t. ) To render cowardly. [Obs.]
God . . . cowardizeth . . . insolent spirits. -- Bp. Hall.
Cowardliness (n.) Cowardice.
Cowardliness (n.) The trait of lacking courage [syn: cowardice, cowardliness] [ant: braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness].
Cowardly (a.) Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. -- Shak.
Cowardly (a.) Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity. -- Macaulay.
The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face. -- Burke.
Syn: Timid; fearful; timorous; dastardly; pusillanimous; recreant; craven; faint-hearted; chicken-hearted; white-livered.
Cowardly (adv.) In the manner of a coward. --Spenser.
Cowardly (a.) Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted; "cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley [syn: cowardly, fearful] [ant: brave, courageous].
Cowardship (n.) Cowardice. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Cowbane (n.) (Bot.) A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.
Cowberries (n. pl. ) of Cowberry
Cowberry (n.) (Bot.) A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry.
Cowberry (n.) Low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries [syn: cowberry, mountain cranberry, lingonberry, lingenberry, lingberry, foxberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea].
Cowberry (n.) Tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller [syn: lingonberry, mountain cranberry, cowberry, lowbush cranberry].
Cowbird (n.) (Zool.) The cow blackbird ({Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle.
Cowbird (n.) North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests.
Cowblakes (n. pl.) Dried cow dung used as fuel. [Prov. Eng.] -- Simmonds.
Cowboy (n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
Cowboy (n.) One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.
Cowpoke (n.) A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback; -- an informal name for cowboy.
Syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowhand, cowherd.
Cowboy (n.) A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd].
Cowboy (n.) A performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging [syn: cowboy, rodeo rider].
Cowboy (n.) Someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles).
Cowboy (n.) Synonym for hacker. It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence.
Cowboy [Sun, from William Gibson's cyberpunk SF] Synonym for hacker. It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence. [{Jargon File]
Cowboy (n.) [ C ] (Fram worker) (Also cowhand) （尤指美國西部的）牛仔，牧人 A person, especially in the western US, whose job is to take care of cattle, and who usually rides a horse, or a similar character in a film.
// The ranch employed ten or twelve cowboys.
// He was wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat.
// I don't much like cowboy films/ movies.
Cowboy (n.) [ C ] (Dishonest person) (UK informal) 弄虛作假的商人；粗心大意的人；不負責任的人，莽撞鬼 Someone who is not honest, careful, or skilful in their trade or business, or someone who ignores rules that most people obey and is therefore not considered to be responsible.
// Those builders are a bunch of cowboys - they made a terrible job of our extension.
Cowcatxjer (n.) A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot.
Kauri (n.) [Native name.] (Bot.) A tall coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis australis, or Dammara australis), having white straight-grained wood furnishing valuable timber and also yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also kaudi, kaury, cowdie, and cowrie.].
Cowdie (n.) (Bot.) See Kauri.
Cowered (imp. & p. p.) of Cower
Cowering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cower
Cower (v. i.) To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.
Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. -- Dryden.
Like falcons, cowering on the nest. -- Goldsmith.
Cower (v. t.) To cherish with care. [Obs.]
Cower (v.) Crouch or curl up; "They huddled outside in the rain" [syn: huddle, cower].
Cower (v.) Show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel].
Grampus (n.; pl. Grampuses.) (Zool.) A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.
Grampus (n.; pl. Grampuses.) (Zool.) A kind of tongs used in a bloomery. [U.S.] Granade
Cowfish (n.) (Zool.) The grampus.
Cowfish (n.) (Zool.) A California dolphin ({Tursiops Gillii).
Cowfish (n.) (Zool.) A marine plectognath fish ({Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.
Cowfish (n.) Trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes [syn: cowfish, Lactophrys quadricornis].
Cowhage (n.) (Bot.) A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculae are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge. [Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]
Cowhearted (a.) Cowardly.
The Lady Powis . . . patted him with her fan, and called him a cowhearted fellow. -- R. North.
Cowherd (n.) One whose occupation is to tend cows.
Cowherd (n.) A hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd].
Cowhide (n.) The hide of a cow.
Cowhide (n.) Leather made of the hide of a cow.
Cowhide (n.) A coarse whip made of untanned leather.
Cowhided (imp. & p. p.) of Cowhide.
Cowhiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cowhide.
Cowhide (v. t.) To flog with a cowhide.
Cowish (v. t.) Timorous; fearful; cowardly. [R.] -- Shak.
Cowish (n.) (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant ({Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon. [Written also cous.]
Compare: Cowhage
Cowhage (n.) (Bot.) A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spicul[ae] are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge. [Written also couhage, cowage, and cowitch.]
Cowitch (n.) (Bot.) See Cowhage.
Cowl (n.) A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The name was also applied to the hood and garment together.
What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl? -- Pope.
Cowl (n.) A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc.
Cowl (n.) A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.
Cowl (n.) (Aviation) A removable metal covering for an aircraft engine, providing streamlining to minimize wind resistance; -- also called cowling.
Cowl (n.) A covering for a chimney or other ventilating shaft functioning to increase the draft.
Cowl (n.) A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water. -- Johnson.
Cowl (n.) Protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine" [syn: hood, bonnet, cowl, cowling].
Cowl (n.) A loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk).
Cowl (v.) Cover with or as with a cowl; "cowl the boys and veil the girls".
Cowled (a.) Wearing a cowl; hooded; as, a cowled monk. "That cowled churchman." -- Emerson.
Cowled (a.) Having the head enclosed in a cowl or hood; "a cowled monk".
Cowleech (n.) One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.
Cowleeching (n.) Healing the distemper of cows.
Cowlick (n.) A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.
Cowlick (n.) A tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat
Cowlike (a.) Resembling a cow.
With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. -- Pope.
Cowlstaff (n.) A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons. -- Suckling. co-worker
Coworker (n.) One who works with another; a cooperator.
Syn: colleague, coworker, fellow worker, fellow-worker, workfellow.
Cow parsley () (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant of the genus Chaerophyllum ({C. temulum and C. sylvestre).
Cow parsley (n.) Coarse erect biennial Old World herb introduced as a weed in eastern North America [syn: cow parsley, wild chervil, Anthriscus sylvestris].
Parsnip (n.) (Bot.) The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself.
Cow parsnip. See Cow parsnip.
Meadow parsnip, The European cow parsnip.
Poison parsnip, The wild stock of the parsnip.
Water parsnip, Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sium, the species of which are poisonous.
Masterwort (n.) (Bot.) (a) A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant ({Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria).
Masterwort (n.) (Bot.) (b) The Astrantia major, a European umbelliferous plant with a showy colored involucre.
Cow+parsnip+({Heracleum+lanatum">(c) Improperly, The cow parsnip ({Heracleum lanatum).
Cow parsnip () (Bot.) A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum ({H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).
Cow parsnip (n.) Tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers [syn: cow parsnip, hogweed, Heracleum sphondylium].
Cowpea (n.) The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States.
Cowpea (n.) (Bot.) A leguminous plant ({Vigna Sinensis, syn. Vigna Catjang) found throughout the tropics of the Old World.
It is extensively cultivated in the Southern United States for fodder, and the seed is used as food for man.
Cowpea (n.) Fruit or seed of the cowpea plant [syn: cowpea, black-eyed pea].
Cowpea (n.) Sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure [syn: cowpea, cowpea plant, black-eyed pea, Vigna unguiculata, Vigna sinensis].
Cowpea (n.) Eaten fresh as shell beans or dried [syn: black-eyed pea, cowpea].
Cowper's glands () (Anat.) Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
Cow-pilot (n.) (Zool.) A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies ({Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra.
Cowpock (n.) See Cowpox. --Dunglison.
Cowpox (n.) (Med.) A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock. --Dunglison.
Cowpox (n.) A viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox [syn: cowpox, vaccinia].
Cowquake (n.) (Bot.) A genus of plants ({Briza); quaking grass.
Compare: Kauri
Kauri (n.) [Native name.] (Bot.) A tall coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis australis, or Dammara australis), having white straight-grained wood furnishing valuable timber and also yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also kaudi, kaury, cowdie, and cowrie.].
Cowrie (n.) Same as Kauri.
Cowries (n. pl. ) of Cowry
Cowrie (n.) Alt. of Cowry
Cowry (n.) A marine shell of the genus Cypraea.
Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental.
Formerly Cypr[ae]a moneta and several other species were largely used as money in Africa and some other countries, and they are still so used to some extent.
The value is always trifling, and varies at different places.
Cowry (n.) Any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells [syn: cowrie, cowry].
Compare: Marsh marigold
Marsh marigold, () (Bot.) Caltha+({Caltha+palustris">A perennial plant of the genus Caltha ({Caltha palustris), growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. See Cowslip.
Marigold (n.) (Bot.) A name for several plants with golden yellow blossoms, especially the Calendula officinalis (see Calendula), and the cultivated species of Tagetes.
Note: There are several yellow-flowered plants of different genera bearing this name; as, the African marigold or French marigold of the genus Tagetes, of which several species and many varieties are found in gardens. They are mostly strong-smelling herbs from South America and Mexico: bur marigold, of the genus Bidens; corn marigold, of the genus Chrysanthemum ({Chrysanthemum segetum, a pest in the cornfields of Italy); fig marigold, of the genus Mesembryanthemum; marsh marigold, of the genus Caltha+({Caltha+palustris">Caltha ({Caltha palustris), commonly known in America as the cowslip. See Marsh Marigold.
Marigold window. (Arch.) See Rose window, under Rose.
Cowslip (n.) (Bot.) A common flower in England ({Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.
Cowslip (n.) In the United States, the marsh marigold ({Caltha palustris), appearing in wet places in early spring and often used as a pot herb. It is nearer to a buttercup than to a true cowslip. See Illust. of Marsh marigold.
American cowslip (Bot.), A pretty flower of the West ({Dodecatheon Meadia), belonging to the same order ({Primulace[ae]) with the English cowslip.
French+cowslip+(Bot.),+Bear's-ear+({Primula+Auricula">French cowslip (Bot.), bear's-ear ({Primula Auricula).
Cowslip (n.) Early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers [syn: cowslip, paigle, Primula veris].
Cowslip (n.) Swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups [syn: marsh marigold, kingcup, meadow bright, May blob, cowslip, water dragon, Caltha palustris].
Cowslipped (a.) Adorned with cowslips. "Cowslipped lawns." -- Keats.
Compare: Lungwort
Lungwort (n.) (Bot.) (a) An herb of the genus Pulmonaria ({Pulmonaria officinalis), of Europe; -- so called because the spotted appearance of the leaves resembles that of a diseased lung.
Lungwort (n.) (Bot.) (b) Any plant of the genus Mertensia (esp. Mertensia Virginica and Mertensia Sibirica), plants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip. -- Gray.
Cow's lungwort mullein.
Sea lungwort, Mertensia maritima, found on the seacoast of Northern Europe and America.
Tree+lungwort,+a+lichen+({Sticta+pulmonacea">Tree lungwort, a lichen ({Sticta pulmonacea) growing on
trees and rocks. The thallus is lacunose, and in appearance somewhat resembles the lungs, for diseases of which it was once thought a remedy.
Cow's lungwort () Mullein.
Cow tree () (Bot.) A tree ({Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk.
Cowweed (n.) (Bot.) Same as Cow parsley.
Cowwheat (n.) (Bot.) A weed of the genus Melampyrum, with black seeds, found on European wheatfields.
Cox (n.) A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull. [Obs.]
Go; you're a brainless cox, a toy, a fop. -- Beau. & Fl.
Coxa (n.) (Zool.) The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean. Coxalgia
Coxa (n.) The ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum [syn: hip, hip joint, coxa, articulatio coxae].
Coxalgia (n.) Alt. of Coxalgy
Coxalgy (n.) (Med.) Pain in the hip.
Coxcomb (n.) A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.
Coxcomb (n.) The cap itself.
Coxcomb (n.) The top of the head, or the head itself.
We will belabor you a little better, And beat a little more care into your coxcombs. -- Beau & Fl.
Coxcomb (n.) A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop.
Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee. -- Goldsmith.
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. -- Pope.
Coxcomb (n.) (Bot.) A name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. Same as Cockscomb.
Coxcomb (n.) A conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments [syn: coxcomb, cockscomb].
Coxcomb (n.) A cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red [syn: cockscomb, coxcomb].
Coxcomb (n.) The fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds [syn: comb, cockscomb, coxcomb].
Coxcombical (a.) Befitting or indicating a coxcomb; like a coxcomb; foppish; conceited. -- Cox*comb"ic*al*ly, adv.
Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails. -- W. Irving.
Coxcombly (a.) Like a coxcomb. [Obs.] "You coxcombly ass, you!" -- Beau. & Fl.
Coxcombry (n.) The manners of a coxcomb; foppishness.
Coxcomical (a.) Coxcombical. [R.]
Coxcomically (adv.) Conceitedly. [R.]
Coxswain (n.) See Cockswain.
Coxswain (n.) The helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew [syn: coxswain, cox].
Coy (a.) Quiet; still. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Coy (a.) Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry.
Coy, and difficult to win. -- Cowper.
Coy and furtive graces. -- W. Irving.
Nor the coy maid, half willings to be pressed, Shall kiss the cup, to pass it to the rest. -- Goldsmith.
Coy (a.) Soft; gentle; hesitating.
Enforced hate, Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee. -- Shak.
Syn: Shy; shriking; reserved; modest; bashful; backward; distant.
Coyed (imp. & p. p.) of Coy
Coying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coy
Coy (v. t.) To allure; to entice; to decoy. [Obs.]
A wiser generation, who have the art to coy the fonder sort into their nets. -- Bp. Rainbow.
Coy (v. t.) To caress with the hand; to stroke.
Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, While I thy amiable cheeks do coy. -- Shak.
Coy (v. i.) To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity. [Obs.]
Thus to coy it, With one who knows you too! -- Rowe.
Coy (v. i.) To make difficulty; to be unwilling. [Obs.]
If he coyed To hear Cominius speak, I 'll keep at home. -- Shak.
Coy (a.) Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way [syn: coy, demure, overmodest].
Coy (a.) Showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement; "a politician coy about his intentions".
Coy (a.) Modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures; "like a wild young colt, very inquisitive but very coy and not to be easily cajoled".
Coy, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 116
Housing Units (2000): 49
Land area (2000): 0.673942 sq. miles (1.745502 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.673942 sq. miles (1.745502 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15790
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 34.541882 N, 91.869736 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Coy, AR
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