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Rowen

Rowen \Row"en\, n. [Cf. E. rough, OE. row, rowe.] [Called also rowet, rowett, rowings, roughings.]

  1. A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.

    Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes.
    --Mortimer.

  2. The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

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rowen

n. 1 A second crop of hay; aftermath. 2 A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.

Usage examples of "rowen".

Blanche Creamer, who had taken such a fancy to him, or a chat with the Widow Rowens, who was very lively in her talk, for all her sombre colors, and reminded him a good deal of same of his earlier friends, the senoritas,--all these were distractions, to be sure, but not enough to keep his fiery spirit from fretting itself in longings for more dangerous excitements.

Tanalasta and Rowen were still a hundred paces from the bailey when they began to smell hints of death-the fetor of rotting meat, acrid whiffs of charred flesh, the musty odor of newly-opened earth.

I well heard say, That tregetours, within a halle large, Have made come in a water and a barge, And in the halle rowen up and down.

Rowen guided Tanalasta away from a red catclaw bush, pulling her safely beyond the striking range of a half-hidden pixie-viper.

There was a booming crack as her jaws came together, and Rowen howled in agony.

Such was the state of things when he received an invitation to take tea sociably, with a few friends, at Hyacinth Cottage, the residence of the Widow Rowens, relict of the late Beeri Rowens, Esquire, better known as Major Rowens.

Major Rowens united in his person certain other traits which help a man to eminence in the branch of public service referred to.

Major Rowens got overheated galloping about the field on the day of the Great Muster, and had a rush of blood to the head, according to the common report,--at any rate, something which stopped him short in his career of expansion and promotion, and established Mrs.

The Widow Rowens, though not of the mansion house set, was among the most genteel of the two-story circle, and was in the habit of visiting some of the great people.

It very soon gave her great comfort, however, to see that Marilla, Rowens had just missed it in her calculations, and she chuckled immensely to find Dudley Veneer devoting himself chiefly to Helen Darley.

If the Rowens woman should hook Dudley, she felt as if she should gnaw all her nails off for spite.

The Reverend Doctor, being now left alone, engaged the Widow Rowens, who put the best face on her vexation she could, but was devoting herself to all the underground deities for having been such a fool as to ask that palefaced thing from the Institute to fill up her party.

Blanche Creamer, who had taken such a fancy to him, or a chat with the Widow Rowens, who was very lively in her talk, for all her sombre colors, and reminded him a good deal of same of his earlier friends, the senoritas,--all these were distractions, to be sure, but not enough to keep his fiery spirit from fretting itself in longings for more dangerous excitements.

Since his introduction to Helen at the distinguished tea-party given by the Widow Rowens, and before her coming to sit with Elsie, Mr.

I well heard say, That tregetours, within a halle large, Have made come in a water and a barge, And in the halle rowen up and down.