uncowl

== English == === Etymology === From un- +‎ cowl. === Verb === uncowl (third-person singular simple present uncowls, present participle uncowling, simple past and past participle uncowled) (transitive) To divest or deprive of a cowl (monk's hood or hooded robe). (transitive, figurative, archaic) To uncover; to unveil. 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Osorio, London: John Pearson, 1873, Act I, p. 24,[2] I pray you, think us friends—uncowl your face, For you seem faint, and the night-breeze blows healing. (instransitive) To remove or pull back one's cowl. (transitive) To remove the cowl (protective covering) from (an engine).