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COWISH

Definition: COWISH

COWISH

Noun

1. An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon.

Transitive verb

1. Timorous; fearful; cowardly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "COWISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references)

Anagrams: COWISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-h-i-o-s-w"
	-1 letter: chows.
	-2 letters: chis, chow, cosh, cows, hows, ichs, scow, show, wich, wish.
	-3 letters: chi, cis, cos, cow, hic, his, how, ich, ohs, sic, sow, who, wis, wos.
	-4 letters: hi, ho, is, oh, os, ow, sh, si, so, wo.
	Words containing the letters "c-h-i-o-s-w"
	+1 letter: cowfish.
	+2 letters: chowsing, clownish, cowhides.
	+3 letters: chowtimes, cowfishes, inchworms, showpiece, whipcords, whipstock, wholistic.
	+4 letters: clownishly, dowitchers, showcasing, showpieces, stitchwort, switcheroo, whipstocks.
	+5 letters: microswitch, stitchworts, switchboard, switcheroos, whichsoever, workaholics.
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Alternative Orthography: COWISH

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

43 4F 57 49 53 48

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)

-.-. --- .--. .. ... ....

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

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

01000011 01001111 01010111 01001001 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#87 &#73 &#83 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0057 0049 0053 0048

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

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

374957435342

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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