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Cowish

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Cow´ish    (kou´ĭsh)
a.1.Timorous; fearful; cowardly.
n.1.(Bot.) An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon.


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The cowish, also, or biscuit root, about the size of a walnut, which they reduce to a very palatable flour; together with the jackap, aisish, quako, and others; which they cook by steaming them in the ground.
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