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cows

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WordNet
Grazing cow
Grazing cow
  1. (n) cows
    domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age "so many head of cattle","wait till the cows come home","seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible","a team of oxen"
Illustrations
A cow in the stable
A standing cow with her calf tied to a tree with a rope in a meadow.
A cow with her calf in a meadow
Cow lying in a meadow, in the distance a mill. Near Breukelen.
Lying cow with windmill
Four cows. Study of standing and lying cows.
Four cows
Three cows in the meadow, on the right a river.
Cows in the pasture
Landscape with cows standing in a pool of water near a row of willows, two children playing on the right.
Landscape with cows standing in a pool of water near a row of willows, two children playing on the right.
Round representation of a stable with cows, sheep and goats and a covered wagon; a farmer's wife is milking. In the foreground a dog is sleeping, at the exit a shepherd is playing a flute. In the four corners witches flying on monsters.
Cows in a stable;witches in the four corners
A lying cow, seen from the front.
Lying cow
Quotations
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ogden Nash
The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.
Ogden Nash
Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed.
Spanish Proverb
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Mark Twain
Dorothy L. Sayers
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
Dorothy L. Sayers
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.
Billie Burke
Idioms

Cash cow - A product, business, etc, that generates a continuous flow of money or a high proportion of overall profits is a cash cow.

Sacred cow - Something that is a sacred cow is held in such respect that it cannot be criticised or attacked.

Till the cows come home - This idioms means 'for a very long time'. ('Until the cows come home' is also used.)

Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free - This idiom is usually used to refer to men who don't want to get married, when they can get all the benefits of marriage without getting married.

Usage in the news

Pier 40, Once a Cash Cow , Is Slowly Killing Hudson River Park. observer.com

This wagon, loaded for a three-day drive, leads 220 cattle and nine neighborly cow hands. pioneer-review.com

A cow licks its muzzle in Padukka, Sri Lanka, where the UN has worked to eradicate rinderpest. ashingtonpost.com

The Knight family, the cow cavalry and the unofficial mayor of Boca Grande. bocabeacon.com

Cow facing slaughter kills Eid celebrant . cbsnews.com

Two teenage brothers are charged in a series of cow and horse shooting deaths in Choctaw . newsok.com

I think it has always been around, and the current attention is an offshoot of our panic about mad cow disease. flyrodreel.com

Actually, even mad cow disease may be overblown. flyrodreel.com

Toledo is home to the famed "Butter Cow Lady," the late Norma "Duffy" Lyon, of Iowa State Fair fame. tamatoledonews.com

David Albers/Staff Cast member Kristin Cassidy rehearses the role of Cow during a rehearsal for "Click, Clack , Moo" at Sugden Community Theater on Monday, May 21, 2012, in Naples. marconews.com

The front end of a cow carcass was dangling from the ceiling. houstonpress.com

You click on a cow, and that's all you do. ired.com

Bogost furrows his brow asking, "Why didn't they just click the 'Full Page' link to get to the cows.". ired.com

One idea that Kansas State Extension Cow/Calf Specialist Dr Bob Weaber offered up at the recent K-State Beef Conference was: " Cull your replacements". gctelegram.com

Net beef cow culling rate for year may be about 11 percent. examiner-enterprise.com

Usage in scientific papers

An investigation of this kind is the COW experiment in which the effect of the weight of the neutron on the interference pattern was studied.
Quantum Theory within the Framework of General Relativity

In this paper, we present the results of an evaluation of 3412 cows seen in satellite pictures.
No alignment of cattle along geomagnetic field lines found

Second, we evaluated the body axes of individual cows, as in our opinion magnetoreception is a property of an individual and not of the herd.
No alignment of cattle along geomagnetic field lines found

Third, we evaluated the orientation of the heads, as it is possible that, even if no unidirectionality were found in the axial data, all cows could be oriented with their heads to the northern half of the circle.
No alignment of cattle along geomagnetic field lines found

In the second step, we evaluated the body axes of individual cows.
No alignment of cattle along geomagnetic field lines found

Usage in literature

Nothing does so much to dry a cow up, especially a young cow, as the senseless treatment to which she is too often subjected. "Cattle and Their Diseases" by Robert Jennings

Girls are bought from their parents while mere children by the payment of so many cows, goats, etc. "Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States" by Various

The virtues of cows are more active than passive. "Stories of Animal Sagacity" by W.H.G. Kingston

Wallie drew off his riding gloves and stepped up briskly in a professional manner and pried open the mouth of the protesting cow. "The Dude Wrangler" by Caroline Lockhart

They houghed my cow, two years ago, sir. "The Settlers at Home" by Harriet Martineau

We stood to sell eighty thousand dollars' worth of beef cows that fall. "The Man Next Door" by Emerson Hough

I never saw a purple cow! "The Book of Humorous Verse" by Various

You may remove it by heating the milk as soon as it has been drawn from the cows. "The Settlers in Canada" by Frederick Marryat

For a long time it was but a venial crime to kill a cow and eat it if one were hungry. "The Story of the Outlaw" by Emerson Hough

Well, Johnnie, the Muley Cow and Spot the dog were in the back pasture one day, where the Muley Cow had strayed. "The Tale of the The Muley Cow" by Arthur Scott Bailey

Usage in poetry
Thank you, pretty cow, that made
Pleasant milk to soak my bread
Every day and every night,
Warm, and fresh, and sweet, and white.
An' ev'ry cow of hers do stand,
An' never overzet her païl;
Nor try to kick her nimble hand,
Nor switch her wi' her heavy taïl.
"I will not have it," said the king,
"I swear, so mote I thee;
Thy foul cow-hide I would not bear,
If thou wouldst give it to me."
Udder'd cows are standing—pensive,
Not belonging to that ilk;
How shall horn, or tail defensive,
Keep the water from their milk?
And she thought of the country garden
She could smell the new-mown hay,
She could smell the dear old cow-shed
All those miles away!
It’s very nice to think of how
In every country lives a Cow
To furnish milk with all her might
For Kittens’ comfort and delight.