COWES. 522 COW-PARSNIP. public memorial and park, donated to the nation by Kdward 'll. Cowps is famous for its vacht- b'uilding yards, and has a considerable trade as the port ' of the island. Population, in 1891, 11.000: in 1001, 9000. COWFISH (so named from the shape of its head). (1) A trunkfish {Ostraciiim quadri- come) of the tropical Atlantic, varicolored in brifiht hues, and also called cuckold. (See Cow- Pilot and Plate of Plectogn.th Fishe.s.) (2) A srauipus. (3) A cow-shark (q.v.). COWGATE, The. A well-known street in
- he Old Town, Edinburgh, It was once a fash-
ionable place of residence, but is now given over to the poorer classes, COWHAGE. See Cowage, COWHEEN, The local name in eastern Can- ad.i of the long-tailed duck (CJangula hyemalis) , or old-squaw (q.v.), COWITCH. See Cowage, COWL (AS, cSle, ciihlc, cugle, Icel, kufl, OHG. cii(jclCi, Ger, Kugel, Eogel, OF, coule. It. cucuUa, corolla, from Lat. cucuUus. cap). A hood gen- erally attached to a loose cloak and worn on the head". It was common in England in the Jliddle Ages, but has come to be used chiefly by monks or members of some religious order, such as the Benedictines and Franciscans. See Costume, Ecclesiastical, COWLES, kolz. William Lyman (18.56—), An American scholar and educator, born at Bel- chertown, ISIass, He graduated at Amherst College in 1878, was instructor in Latin there from 1880 to 1883, in 1883-84 studied at the universities of Berlin, Gijttingen, and Leipzig, and in 1884 became associate-professor of Latin at Amherst, In 1894 he was appointed to a full professorship. From 1880 to 1804 he was lecturer in Latin literature at Smith College, where he was also acting professor of Latin in 1899-1000, He was elected a member of the American Philological Association and of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome, and in the study of classical arehfeology has traveled extensively throughout the Italian peninsula. His publications include, besides many articles for periodicals, an excellent anno- tated edition of the Arlelphw of Terence (1896: in Peck and Pease's Students' Series of Latin Clas- sics), and Selections from Catullus (1900: with notes ) . COWLEY, kou'li, Abraham (1618-67), An English poet and essayist. He was born in Lon- don, and was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, According to his own statement, he received his poetical in- spiration from Spenser's Faerie Queene, a copy of which lay in his mother's parlor, A volvmie of poems, entitled Poetical Blossoms, was published b}' him at the age of fifteen, and one of the pieces contained therein was written when he was only ten years old. At Cambridge he obtained dis- tinction for the elegance of his translations: and while there he composed the greater part of the Davideis, an epic in four books on the life of David — a work which he never completed. He was attached to the Court party, and, in con- sequence, was ejected from his college in 1643, after he had taken his degree of M.A. In 1646 he followed the Queen to Paris, where he re- mained ten years; and on his return to England, being under suspicion, he was seized and bound in heavy securities for his future behavior. In the same year (1056) he jmblished an important collection of his poems, including his elegies on Harvey and Crashaw, Pindaric odes, 7 lir Mis- tress, and the Davideis. He now studied medi- cine, receiving his degree the following year. After the Restoration he obtained a lease of the Queen's lands at Cliertsey, in Surrey, whither he retired in 1605. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, near Chaucer and Spenser. Cowley be- longs to what Dr. Johnson called the 'metaphysi- cal' school of poets. He abounds in subtleties of thought and expression, enjoyed in his own day, but long since out of fashion. To us his fanciful love poems, displaying no emotion, seem very strange. Of his longer poems, the elegies cited above are the best. His most natural verse is scattered through his essays, which are graceful and beautiful. Consult: .Johnson's fssay in Lives of the Poets; and Complete Works, ed. Grosart (Blackburn, 1880-81), COWLEY, H.XNAit (1743-1809), An Eng- lisli poet and playwright. She was born at Tiver- ton, Devonshire, where her father, Philip Park- house, was a bookseller. It was not until several years after her marriage to ^Ir. Cowley, a captain in the East Indian service, that she began to w-rite plays. Her first production. The Runaicags, she wrote in less than a fortnight. It was pre- sented by Garrick at the Drury Lane (May 10, 1779), and was instantly successful. Her other comedies include: Who's the Diipef (Drury Lane. 1779) ; The Belle's Stratagem, which is still popular (Covent Garden, 1780) ; Which Is the Manf (Covent Garden, 1782) : and More Ways than One (Covent Garden, 1783), COWLEY, Hexrt Richard Charles Welles- ley, first Earl (1804-84). An English diploma- tist. He was an attache at Vienna in 1824, and was afterwards successively promoted to be secre- tary to the legation at Stuttgart, and to the em- bassy at Constantinople, He then acted as minis- ter plenipotentiary to Switzerland ( 1848), and to the Germanic Confederation in 1851, and in the following year succeeded the Jlarquis of Nor- nianby as ambassador at Paris, In this position he displayed eminent qualifications; and he held the appointment, whether his party was in or out of office, till 1867, when he resigned, W^ith the Earl of Clarendon he represented Great Britain at the Paris Congress of 1856, He was created Viscount Dangan and Earl Cowley in 1857, COW-PABSNIP (Eeraclevm) . A genus of plants of the natviral order Umbelliferae, One species, Heracleum spondylium, is a native of Great Britain, the common cow-parsnip, or hog- weed, called kiesh in Scotland : a common and rank weed, with coarsely hairy leaves, and stem about three to five feet high. It is gathered in some parts of England for fattening hogs, and is said to afford wholesome food for cattle. Some Siberian species are much larger, and have been reconuuended for cultivation on account of the great quantity of herbage which they yield very early in the season, particularly Heracleum panaces, which sometimes attains a height of ten feet, and whose root leaves are three to five feet long. Heracleum lanatum. a tall, stout, woolly jierennial with grooved stems, and large com- pound leaves, is known as cow-parsnip in the L'nited States and Canada, being quite widely
