enow /i-NOW/. adjective or adverb. Enough. In archaic usage, a plural for enough. In Scottish dialect: a moment ago, just now or presently. From Old English genog (enough).
“There are enow of zealots on both sides.” (David Hume)
“His mere looks threw darts enow t’impress Their pow’rs with trembling.” (Homer, translated by George Chapman)
“Away, Away, John Carrion Crow,
Your Master hath enow
Down in his Barley Mow.”
(Thomas Bewick, from The History of Little King Pippin With an Account of the Melancholy Death of Four Naughty Boys, Who were Devoured by Wild Beasts. And the Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse.)
“I like thy spirit, I do in truth; but I do not admire thy judgment. Bone-rackings and bastings be plenty enow in this life, without going out of one’s way to invite them.” (Mark Twain)
Indeed this very love which is my boast,
And which, when rising up from breast to brow,
Doth crown me with a ruby large enow
To draw men’s eyes and prove the inner cost…
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)