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Cows   /kaʊz/   Listen
noun
Cow  n.  (pl. cows; old pl. kine)  
1.
The mature female of bovine animals.
2.
The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.


cows  n. pl.  Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; as, wait till the cows come home.
Synonyms: cattle, kine, oxen, Bos taurus.





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"Cows" Quotes from Famous Books



... they had eaten the tongue, brisket, and tenderloin of the two cows, while fresh, these being the tenderest and best parts of the buffalo, they added the rest of the meat to their stores in the Annex. As they had done already in several cases, they jerked it, a most useful operation that observant Dick had learned ...
— The Last of the Chiefs - A Story of the Great Sioux War • Joseph Altsheler
... former generations, and going to peddle out a lot of huckleberries. See there, a man trundling a wheelbarrow-load of lobsters. And now a milk-cart rattles briskly onward, covered with green canvas, and conveying the contributions of a whole herd of cows, in large tin canisters. But let all these pay their toll and pass. Here comes a spectacle that causes the old toll-gatherer to smile benignantly, as if the travellers brought sunshine with them and lavished its gladsome influence all ...
— The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... in a low voice, and affecting not to hear his commands; "that will be sad news for my friend. Why, sir, you are a fortunate man. Malverton is an excellent spot; well watered and manured; newly and completely fenced; not a larger barn in the county; oxen and horses and cows in the best order; I never set eyes on a finer orchard. By my faith, sir, you are a fortunate man. But, pray, what have you for dinner? I am hungry as a wolf. Order me a beef-steak, and some potation or other. ...
— Arthur Mervyn - Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 • Charles Brockden Brown
... before the judge that that had caused the greatest astonishment of his long and honourable life. In this most pitiable state he saw in the fields during the merry month of May a girl, who by chance was a maiden, and minding cows. The heat was so excessive that this cowherdess had stretched herself beneath the shadow of a beech tree, her face to the ground, after the custom of people who labour in the fields, in order to get ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac
... of the sand rush in these bottoms which grow in many places as high as a man's breast and stand as thick as the stalks of wheat usually do. this affords one of the best winter pastures on earth for horses or cows, and of course will be much in favour of an establishment should it ever be thought necessary to fix one at this place. the grass is also luxouriant and would afford a fine swarth of hay at this time in parsels of many acres together. ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al


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