[f. COWL sb.1]

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  1.  trans. To put a monk’s cowl on; to make a monk of.

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1536.  Latimer, 2nd Serm. bef. Conv., Wks. I. 48. Swaged and cowled with a Franciscan’s cowl.

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a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies (1840), II. 236. By such preposterous cowling of boys, and veiling of girls.

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1848.  Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., I. iii. Belike you’ll cowl him.

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  2.  To cover as with a cowl or hood; to draw over like a cowl.

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1810.  Southey, Kehama, II. ii. The Rajah … smote his breast, and o’er his face Cowl’d the white mourning vest.

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1869.  Blackmore, Lorna D., lix. The mountains, cowled with fog, and seamed with storm.

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1881.  F. T. Palgrave, Visions of Eng., 216. That stern Florentine apart Cowl’d himself dark in thought, within his heart.

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