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Definition of Cahows
1. cahow [n] - See also: cahow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cahows
Literary usage of Cahows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Naturalist in Bermuda: A Sketch of the Geology, Zoology, and Botany of by John Matthew Jones, John L. Hurdis, John Walter Wedderburn (1859)
"Mr. Smith describes these cahows as being two beautiful birds, one of them in
particular, which he took to be a male. They were about the size of a common ..."
2. The Bermuda Islands: An Account of Their Scenery, Climate, Productions by Addison Emery Verrill (1902)
"This doubtless refers to the egg-birds as well as to the cahow, but it was "overlate,"
like the former law, for before that time the cahows anil the ..."
3. The Naturalist in Bermuda; a Sketch of the Geology, Zoology, and Botany of by John Matthew Jones (1859)
"Smith describes these cahows as being two beautiful one of them in particular,
which he took to be a They were about the size of a common duck, ..."
4. Adventure Guide to Bermuda by Blair Howard (2004)
"Today, after a great deal of effort, Wingate is the guardian of more than 40
pairs of nesting cahows and the island ..."
5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... He with a contrary extremity of the abundance of Contrary cahows and Fish,
many surfeited and died. Some extreme- killed the Cattell, and one stole away ..."
6. A Text-book of Organic Chemistry by August Bernthsen (1891)
"Prepared from allyl iodide and K2S, (Hofmann, cahows). Analogous selenium and
tellurium compounds of alcohol radicles are also known. ..."
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