ppl. a. [f. COWL sb.1 and v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Furnished with or wearing a cowl.

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1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., IV. 87. The cowled Sophisters.

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1591.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. v. 58. The Mytred Bishop, and the Cowled Fryer.

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c. 1750.  Shenstone, Ruin’d Abbey, 117. The cowl’d zealots.

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1890.  Hosmer, Anglo-Sax. Freedom, 95. Cowled and tonsured priests.

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  b.  transf.

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1794.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxiv. 332. A little membrane on each side uniting to form a cowled tube.

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1840.  E. E. Napier, Scenes & Sports For. Lands, II. vi. 234. The cowled monster [a cobra].

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1851.  Turner, Dom. Archit., II. v. 234. To block up the cowled windows.

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  2.  Bot. Shaped like a cowl, cucullate.

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1828.  in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.

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