ppl. a. [f. COWL sb.1 and v. + -ED.]
1. Furnished with or wearing a cowl.
1561. T. Norton, Calvins Inst., IV. 87. The cowled Sophisters.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. v. 58. The Mytred Bishop, and the Cowled Fryer.
c. 1750. Shenstone, Ruind Abbey, 117. The cowld zealots.
1890. Hosmer, Anglo-Sax. Freedom, 95. Cowled and tonsured priests.
b. transf.
1794. Martyn, Rousseaus Bot., xxiv. 332. A little membrane on each side uniting to form a cowled tube.
1840. E. E. Napier, Scenes & Sports For. Lands, II. vi. 234. The cowled monster [a cobra].
1851. Turner, Dom. Archit., II. v. 234. To block up the cowled windows.
2. Bot. Shaped like a cowl, cucullate.
1828. in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.