'Cowage' definitions:
Definition of 'cowage'
From: WordNet
noun
Pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey
noun
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]
Definition of 'Cowage'
From: GCIDE
- Cowage \Cow"age\ (kou"[asl]j), n. (Bot.) See Cowhage. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'cowage'
From: GCIDE
- Cowhage \Cow"hage\ (kou"h[asl]j), n. [Cf. Hind. kaw[=a]nch, ko[=a]nch.] (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.] [1913 Webster]