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  • English Word Coward Definition Destitute of courage; timid; cowardly.
  • English Word Coward Definition Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity.
  • English Word Coward Definition A person who lacks courage; a timid or pusillanimous person; a poltroon.
  • English Word Coward Definition To make timorous; to frighten.
  • English Word Cowardice Definition Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
  • English Word Cowardie Definition Cowardice.
  • English Word Cowardish Definition Cowardly.
  • English Word Cowardize Definition To render cowardly
  • English Word Cowardliness Definition Cowardice.
  • English Word Cowardly Definition Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
  • English Word Cowardly Definition Proceeding from fear of danger or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity.
  • English Word Cowardly Definition In the manner of a coward.
  • English Word Cowardship Definition Cowardice.
  • English Word Cowbane Definition A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.
  • English Word Cowberries Definition of Cowberry
  • English Word Cowberry Definition A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry.
  • English Word Cowbird Definition 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.
  • English Word Cowblakes Definition Dried cow dung used as fuel.
  • English Word Cowboy Definition 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.
  • English Word Cowboy Definition 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.
  • English Word Cowcatxjer Definition 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.
  • English Word Cowdie Definition See Kauri.
  • English Word Cowed Definition of Cow
  • English Word Cower Definition To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.
  • English Word Cower Definition To cherish with care.
  • English Word Cowered Definition of Cower
  • English Word Cowering Definition of Cower
  • English Word Cowfish Definition The grampus.
  • English Word Cowfish Definition A California dolphin (Tursiops Gillii).
  • English Word Cowfish Definition A marine plectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.