• (n.) See Cowhage.
Cow'itch noun (Botany) See Cowhage . 
Cowitch, or cowage (named from the Hindu kiwanch) is the hairs of the pods of leguminous plants of the genus Mucuna, natives of the East and West Indies. The pod is covered with a thick coating of short, stiff, brittle, brown hairs, the points of which are finely serrated. They easily penetrate the skin, and produce an intolerable itching. They wer...