Anagrams of: COWAGES

• pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey

• the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing

• domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

• a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

• any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends

• a barge carrying bulk materials in an open hold

• the sound made by corvine birds

• utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens

• land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service

• a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging

• form metals with a swage

• female of domestic cattle:

• mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'

• a large unpleasant woman

• subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)

• something that remunerates

• carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)