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Definition of Cow

Cow

A chimney cap; a cowl

The mature female of bovine animals.

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

To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.

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

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Cow Quotations

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
H. L. Mencken

The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
Ogden Nash

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
Ann Landers

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
Hank Aaron

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.
David Lynch

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
Bjork

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Lord Chesterfield

Kiss till the cow comes home.
Francis Beaumont

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
Ralph Nader

If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
Anne Tyler

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
Doug Coupland

Don't have a cow, man.
Matt Groening

I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.
Ellen Burstyn

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.
Lyman Abbott

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
Mason Cooley

Holy cow!
Harry Caray

I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
Patrick Stewart

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
John Harvey Kellogg

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.
Dean Rusk

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
Tommy Douglas

On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person.
Krysten Ritter

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.
Dean Rusk

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.
Mike Johanns

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
Ian Williams

Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.
Jim Fowler

I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.
Ann Veneman

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Cow Translations

cow in Afrikaans is koei
cow in Danish is ko
cow in Dutch is koe
cow in French is vache
cow in German is Kuh
cow in Italian is vaccino, vacca
cow in Latin is bos (bovis )
cow in Norwegian is ku
cow in Portuguese is vaca
cow in Spanish is vaca
cow in Swedish is ko

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