Cow

[kaʊ]

Definition

(noun.) mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'.

(noun.) female of domestic cattle: '`moo-cow' is a child's term'.

(noun.) a large unpleasant woman.

Typist: Yvette--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A chimney cap; a cowl

(n.) The mature female of bovine animals.

(n.) The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.

(v. t.) To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.

(n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.

Typed by Gordon

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Overawe, intimidate, frighten, daunt, subdue by fear.

Inputed by Allen

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Frighten, abash, intimidate, oppress, brow-bent

ANT:Countenance, rally, encourage, inspirit

Checker: Walter

Definition

n. the female of the bovine animals: the female of certain other animals as the elephant &c.—older plurals Kine and Kye the latter now only Scotch.—ns. Cow′-bane the water-hemlock often destructive to cattle; Cow′-berr′y the red whortleberry; Cow′-bird -bunt′ing an American starling which accompanies cattle and drops its eggs into other birds' nests; Cow′-boy a boy who has the care of cows: (U.S.) a man who has the charge of cattle on a ranch; Cow′-calf a female calf; Cow′-catch′er (U.S.) an apparatus on the front of railway engines to throw off obstacles; Cow′-cher′vil -pars′ley -weed an umbelliferous European plant of the hedges and woods; Cow′feeder a dairyman cowherd; Cow′-grass the zigzag clover: a variety of red clover; Cow′-heel an ox-foot stewed to a jelly; Cow′herd one who herds cows; Cow′hide the hide of a cow: the hide of a cow made into leather: a coarse whip made of twisted strips of cowhide.—v.t. to whip with a cowhide.—n. Cow′-house a place in which cows are stalled a byre.—adj. Cow′ish like a cow: (Shak.) cowardly.—ns. Cow′-leech a cow-doctor; Cow′lick a tuft of turned-up hair on the forehead; Cow′-pars′nip an umbelliferous plant used as food for hogs and cattle; Cow′-plant a perennial plant of Ceylon with a milky juice; Cow′-pox a disease which appears in pimples on the teats of the cow the matter thereof used for vaccination; Cow′-tree a South American tree that produces a nourishing fluid resembling milk; Cow′-wheat a genus of annual plants with yellow flowers and seeds somewhat like grains of wheat.

v.t. to subdue: keep under: to dishearten.—adjs. Cowed depressed; Cow′ish (Shak.) easily cowed timorous: mean.

Typed by Edmund