cowlick
(noun) a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cowlick (plural cowlicks)
An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex, as if licked by a cow.
• Colwick, Wilcock
Source: Wiktionary
Cow"lick` (-lk`), n.
Definition: A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 February 2025
(verb) make (substances) hard and improve their usability; “cure resin”; “cure cement”; “cure soap”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
