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COWHAGE

Definition: COWHAGE

COWHAGE

Noun

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: COWHAGE

English words defined with "COWHAGE": Couhage, Cowitch. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COWHAGE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cowhage

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: COWHAGE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

MUCUNA PRURIENS. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: COWHAGE

Derivations

Words beginning with "COWHAGE": cowhages. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: COWHAGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-h-o-w"

-1 letter: cowage.

-2 letters: cahow.

-3 letters: ache, cage, chao, chaw, chew, chow, each, echo, howe, wage, whoa.

-4 letters: ace, age, ago, awe, caw, cog, cow, ego, gae, goa, hae, hag, hao, haw, hew, hoe, hog, how, oca, owe, wae, wag, wha, who, woe, wog.

-5 letters: ae, ag, ah, aw, eh, go, ha, he, ho, oe, oh, ow.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-h-o-w"
 

+1 letter: cowhages.

 

+3 letters: dogwatches.

 

+4 letters: watchdogged.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: COWHAGE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 57 48 41 47 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01010111 01001000 01000001 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#87 &#72 &#65 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0057 0048 0041 0047 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37495742354139

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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