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CO'WAY STAKES, a place of England near Chert- 
fey, where Csefar is faid to have paffed the Thames. 
COW'BRIDGE, a confiderable town of Glamorgan- 
fhire, in South Wales, diftant 173 miles from London; 
from Briftol fifty-two, and from Cardiff twelve. It is 
furrounded by a pleafant neighbourhood, fituated in a 
fertile foil; and the country around is fo well cultivated, 
that, in general, it is called the Vale of Glamorgan. It 
has a handfome church, a town-hall, and county-bride¬ 
well. The quarter-feffions of the county are holtlen here 
at Eafter annually. It is governed by two bailiffs, twelve 
aldermen, twelve common-councilmen, a town-clerk, and 
other officers. Its market is weekly on Tuefdays : an¬ 
nual fairs, May 4, June 24, and September 29. 
CO WE', the capital town of the Cherokee Indians, 
in North America, fituated on the foot of the hills, on 
both Tides of the river Tenneffee. Here terminates the 
great vale of Cowe, exhibiting one of the moft charm¬ 
ing, natural, mountainous, landfcapes that can be feen. 
The vale is clofedat Cowe by a ridge of high hills, called 
the Jore Mountains. In the conftitution of the date of Ten¬ 
neffee, Cowe is deferibed as near the line which fepa- 
rates Tenneffee from Virginia, and is divided from Old 
Chota, anotherlndian town, by that part of the Great 
Iron or Smoaky mountain, called Unicoi, or Unica 
Mountain. 
COW'EL (Dr. John), a learned and eminent civilian, 
born about the year 1554. In 1607 he compiled a Law 
Dictionary, which gave great offence to fir Edward Coke, 
and the other lawyers ; fo that they firll accufed him to 
James I. as afferting that the king’s prerogative was in 
fome cafes limited ; and when they failed in that attempt, 
they complained of him to the houfe of commons, as a 
betrayer of the rights of the people, by afferting that the 
'king was not bound by the laws ; for w'hich he was com¬ 
mitted to cuflody, and his book publicly burnt. He alfo 
publifhed hiflitutioncs Juris Anglicani, in the manner of 
Juftinian’s Inftitutes; and died in the operation for the 
done,in 1611. 
COW'EN, a river of Wales, which runs into theTave, 
in the county of Caermarthen. 
To COW'ER, v. 72. [cwrrian , Welfh ; courier, Fr. or 
perhaps borrowed from the manner in which a cozv finks 
on her knees.] To fink by bending the knees ; to doop ; 
to fhrink.—-Let the pail be put over the man’s head above 
water, then he cower down, and the pail be preffed down 
with him. Bacon. 
As thus he fpake, each bird and bead beheld, 
Approaching two and two ; thefe cow’ring low 
With blandiihment, each bird doop’d on his wing. Milt. 
COWES, the principal trading port-town of the Ifie 
of Wight, divided by the harbour into two parts, called 
Ead, and Weil, Cowes. The latter is pleafantly fitu¬ 
ated on the fide of a hill, at the mouth of the Medina, 
or Newport river, commanding a mod delightful profpeft 
of Spithead, Portfmouth, part of Southampton river, 
and the New Fored ; and here we have frequently the 
pleafure of beholding great part of the royal navy of 
England riding at Spithead ; and likewife fhips and vef- 
fels of every denomination and country, continually paff- 
ing from the eadward or wedward, either going through 
the Needles, or St. Helen’s, the two extremities of 
the ifland. Its cadle was built in 1540. The harbour 
is fafe and convenient; and, were a dock erefted in it, 
we prefume no place in the Channel would be more fre¬ 
quented, as fhips that are outward-bound and receive 
damage at the back of the Wight, in contending v/ith 
contrary winds, are frequently obliged to return to Lon¬ 
don for want of Inch aid. Its road affords the bed of 
ihelter, an accommodation for repair, the anchorage is fo 
good that velfels feldom drift with their anchors, let the 
wind blow as hard as it may ; the road is often filled 
with diips waiting for convoy, or a fair wind, to convey 
them into the Atlantic. 
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The great benefit experienced by many perfons through 
bathing at this place, occafions it to be much frequented 
by people of quality during the fummer-feafon, which 
has induced the inhabitants to build very neat and con¬ 
venient lodging-houfes ; and, were there treble the num¬ 
ber, they would find company to fill them; they have alfo 
lately built a large affembly-room, &c. The mail to and 
from London, via Southampton, is brought to this place 
by packet-velfels, appointed by government, every day, 
and conveyed to Newport by a mail-coach. There are 
likewife paffage-veffels to and from Portfmouth every 
day, except Sunday. 
Eafl Cowes is fituated diredlly oppofite to Weft Cowes, 
on the other fide of the harbour, where are large warehoufes- 
for the reception of goods unladen from fhips, that re¬ 
quire repairing, or for cleanfing rice, &c. brought from 
Carolina, and re-fiiipped again for a foreign market; 
numbers of thefe lhips annually refort to this port, where 
from twenty-two to thirty.five thonfand barrels of this 
grain are ufually fereened, re-packed, and fhipped for 
Holland, &c. Here have been, at different times, feve- 
ral fitips of the line built. The cuftom-houfe is likewife 
in this place, and the port is one of thofe appointed for 
landing tobacco, fnuff, &c. and it is from hence that all 
veffels going from the ifland laden muft clear outwards, 
as likewife enter their cargoes, &c. when imported. 
C.OW'IE, a river of Scotland, which runs into the fea,„ 
a little to the north of Stonehaven, in the county of 
Kincardin. 
COW'ISH, adj. [from to cow , to awe.] Timorous; 
fearful; mean; pufillanimous ; cowardly. Not in ufe: 
It is the cowi/h terror of his fpirit, 
That dares not undertake. Shakefpeare. 
COW'KEEPER, / One whofe bufinefs is to keep 
cows.—The terms cowkeeper and hogherd are not to be 
ttfed in our poetry ; but there are no finer words in the 
Greek language. Broome. 
COWL,/, [cu^le, Sax. cv.cullus, Lat.] A monk’s hood: 
What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl? 
I’ll tell you, friend, a wife man and a fool. Pope. 
[Perhaps from cool, cooler , a vetfel in which hot liquor is 
let to cool.] A veffel in which water is carried on a pole 
between two. 
“ It is not the Cowl makes the friar.” The Latins, 
fay, Cuculla non facit monachum. That is, it is not the ex¬ 
terior, but the interior we are to examine into, before 
w r e form a judgment of a perfon; or, it may be under- 
ftood, that the prieft is never the more holy, nor the 
lawyer or phyfician more fkilful, becaufe they are at¬ 
tired in the feveral habits of their profeflions. 
COWL-STAFF,/. The ftaff on which a veffel is fup- 
ported between two men.—The way by a cowl-jlajf is 
lafer: the ftaff muft have a bunch in the middle, fome- 
what wedge-like, and covered with a loft bolfter. Wifem » 
Mounting him upon a cowl-jlajf. 
Which (tolling him fomething high) 
He apprehended to be Pegafus. Sucklings 
COW'LED, adj. Wearing a cowl: 
Hear the cowl’d zealots with united cries 
Urge the crufade ! Shenjlone, 
COW'LED, or Cucullate leaf,/ in botany, wide 
at the top, and drawn to a point below, as in geranium 
cucullatum : it is in fhape of the paper rolled up, coni¬ 
cally by grocers for fmall parcels of fpices, comfits, &c. 
Vel thurispiperifquefis cucullus. Martial. 
Hence, from a fimilitude in the form, this term was ap¬ 
plied to the cowl, or large pendent cape of the upper 
garment, which turned up occafionally to cover the head. 
Pullo rncevius alget in cucullo. Martial. 
COW'LEY, one of the Gallapagos iflands, in the Pa¬ 
cific Ocean, fituated on the eauinodial line. 
COW'LEY 
