Definition of "yow" []

• Used to express alarm, pain, or surprise. (interjection)

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• "“Cao yao” pronounced tsow yow, rhymes with cow means herbs."
• "But thei will call yow to your compt booke, and that is to the Bible; and by it ye will no more be found the men that ye ar called, then the Devill wilbe approvin to be"
• "You see what need we stand in of all the prayers of the churches with yow, which is the earnest desier of Yovr Loveinge Kinseman Herbert Pelham."