Word Meanings - CRESTFALLEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed.

• Cowbane
  A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock.
• Cowhided
  of Cowhide
• Cow-pilot
  A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra.
• Dejecta
  Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.
• Hangdog
  A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
• COWPERSGLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• Cowberries
  of Cowberry
• Cowhiding
  of Cowhide
• Cowpock
  See Cowpox.
• Dejecter
  One who casts down, or dejects.
• Hanger
  One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
• COWPILOT
  A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra.
• Cowberry
  A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry.
• Cowish
  Timorous; fearful; cowardly.
• Cowpox
  A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock.
• Dejection
  A casting down; depression.
• Hangers-on
  of Hanger-on
• COWRIECOWRY
  A marine shell of the genus Cypræa. Note: There are numerous species, many of them ornamental. Formerly C. moneta and several other species were largely used as money in Africa and some other countries, and they are still so used to some extent. The v

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