These are the meanings of the letters COWPUNCH when you unscramble them.
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Conch (n.)
A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.
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Conch (n.)
In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.
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Conch (n.)
One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.
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Conch (n.)
See Concha, n.
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Conch (n.)
The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.
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Couch (v. i.)
To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
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Couch (v. i.)
To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
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Couch (v. i.)
To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.
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Couch (v. t.)
A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.
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Couch (v. t.)
A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
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Couch (v. t.)
A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.
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Couch (v. t.)
Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
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Couch (v. t.)
To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
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Couch (v. t.)
To arrange; to place; to inlay.
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Couch (v. t.)
To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
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Couch (v. t.)
To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
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Couch (v. t.)
To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
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Couch (v. t.)
To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.
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Couch (v. t.)
To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
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Couch (v. t.)
To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
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Pouch (n.)
A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
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Pouch (n.)
A cyst or sac containing fluid.
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Pouch (n.)
A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
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Pouch (n.)
A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
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Pouch (n.)
A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
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Pouch (n.)
A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
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Pouch (n.)
That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
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Pouch (v. t.)
To pocket; to put up with.
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Pouch (v. t.)
To pout.
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Pouch (v. t.)
To put or take into a pouch.
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Pouch (v. t.)
To swallow; -- said of fowls.
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Punch (n.)
A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.
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Punch (n.)
A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
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Punch (n.)
A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.
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Punch (n.)
A thrust or blow.
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Punch (n.)
A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.
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Punch (n.)
An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
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Punch (n.)
One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.
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Punch (n.)
The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.
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Punch (n.)
To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket.
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Punch (v. t.)
To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.