Cows

Definition: Cows

Cows

Noun

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cows" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Cows

Crosswords: Cows

Cornish (to talk).

Emergency water landing, 600 miles an hour: blank faces, calm as Hindu cows. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

You want to stay here plucking cows, that's your business (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele)

No, Ed, out there are cows. And plenty of them (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal)

I gotta go Julia, we got cows. (Twister; writing credit: Michael Crichton; Anne-Marie Martin)

Sure, but with money like this, I'll keep them till the cows come home (Big Man on Campus; writing credit: Allan Katz)

Sacred cows make the best hamburger. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Montana: At least the cows are sane. (references; author: unknown)

Little birdie in the sky, dropped a poopie in my eye. I didn't scream, I didn't cry, but I thanked the Lord that cows can't fly! (references; author: unknown)

Cows graze in droves on grass that grows on grooves in groves. (references; author: unknown)

Cows (1972)

Riders of the Purple Cows (1924)

Cows and Caws (1917)

Mad Cows (1999)

Where the Cows Go (1991)

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Books

• Cows Like You've Never Seen (reference)

• Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches: The Riddles of Culture (reference)

• Invasion from the Planet of the Cows (Maximum Boy, 4) (reference)

• Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers: Developing Change-Ready People and Organizations (reference)

• Santa Cows (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cows (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Cows With Guns-Cow Pie Nation (reference)

• Love Tractor/'Til the Cows Com (reference)

• More Songs About Buildings and Cows (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Flame tree and cows, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. Credit: CDC.

Cows receive fresh water from a spring development on Eng-Land Acres in central Maryland. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Cows in Sonoma County, CA. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Cows in lot with excessive manure buildup. Montcalm County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Hereford cows and calf grazing. Credit: USDA.

Piglets are one of the main subjects of ARS animal behaviorists. These scientists study behavior of pigs and cows 'round the clock with the goal of improving animal handling practices to reduce stress on animals and lower production costs. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Holstein dairy cows. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Because much of the cost of a cow is the feed and labor needed to maintain her, fewer but higher yielding cows mean lower priced milk. Dairy herd improvement ultimately benefits consumers. Photo by Keith Weller. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Cows found walking around in the forest. Credit: Lynn Chamberlain.

Cows along the John Day River. Credit: John Craig.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And as different degrees of industry were apt to give men possessions in different proportions, so this invention of money gave them the opportunity to continue and enlarge them: for supposing an island, separate from all possible commerce with the rest of the world, wherein there were but an hundred families, but there were sheep, horses and cows, with other useful animals, wholsome fruits, and land enough for corn for a hundred thousand times as many, but nothing in the island, either because of its commonness, or perishableness, fit to supply the place of money; what reason could any one have there to enlarge his possessions beyond the use of his family, and a plentiful supply to its consumption, either in what their own industry produced, or they could barter for like perishable, useful commodities, with others? Where there is not some thing, both lasting and scarce, and so valuable to be hoarded up, there men will not be apt to enlarge their possessions of land, were it never so rich, never so free for them to take: for I ask, what would a man value ten thousand, or an hundred thousand acres of excellent land, ready cultivated, and well stocked too with cattle, in the middle of the inland parts of America, where he had no hopes of commerce with other parts of the world, to draw money to him by the sale of the product? It would not be worth the enclosing, and we should see him give up again to the wild common of nature, whatever was more than would supply the conveniencies of life to be had there for him and his family. (Second Treatise of Government)

As an immediate advance on account of the animals referred to in paragraph 2 (a) above, Germany undertakes to deliver in equal monthly installments in the three months following the coming into force of the present Treaty the following quantities of live stock: (1) To the French Government. 500 stallions (3 to 7 years); 30,000 fillies and mares (18 months to 7 years), type: Ardennais, Boulonnais or Belgian; 2,000 bulls (18 months to 3 years); 90,000 milch cows (2 to 6 years); 1,000 rams; 100,000 sheep; 10,000 goats. (2) To the Belgian Government. 200 stallions (3 to 7 years), large Belgian type; 5,000 mares (3 to 7 years), large Belgian type; 5,000 fillies (18 months to 3 years), large Belgian type; 2,000 bulls (18 months to 3 years); 50,000 milch cows (2 to 6 years); 40,000 heifers; 200 rams; 20,000 Sheep; 15,000 sows. (reference)

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Aubrey and Stephen had a common milkman and often they drove out in the milkcar to Carrickmines where the cows were at grass

Like a bunch a cows, when the lobos are ranging, stick all together

I had the tallow of three hundred cows for greasing my boat, and other uses

I often performed this duty of hospitality, waited long enough to milk a whole herd of cows, but did not see the man approaching from the town

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Health

When sheep, goats, cows, or camels are infected, their milk is contaminated with the bacteria. (references)

Surface water and mountain streams can become contaminated from infected feces from cows or wild birds. (references)

You cannot get hantavirus from farm animals, such as cows, chickens or sheep, or from insects, such as mosquitoes. (references)

Economic History

Hungary

Demand for high quality bovine semen for dairy cows is strong and U.S. exports in this area are significant. (references)

Vietnam

There is considerable interest in U.S. animal genetics to improve local breeds, especially swine, chicken and dairy cows. (references)

Egypt

Many small farmers also have cows, water buffaloes, and chicken, although larger modern farms are becoming more important. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

The current Koizumi government has sought to break from the policy of fiscal support by capping the government budget deficit and promising thoroughgoing structural reform "without sacred cows." The Bank of Japan has also reduced interest rates on short term funds to essentially zero, but its ability to lower real interest rates has been hampered by persistent deflation. (references)

Trade

Burma

On November 26, 1999, the Ministry of Commerce issued Order No. 10/99 that lists the following as restricted export items: rice and rice products, white sugar, red sugar and brown sugar, groundnut and groundnut oil, sesame and sesame oil, mustard and mustard oil, sunflower and sunflower oil, groundnut cake, sesame cake, mustard cake, sunflower cake, cotton and cotton products, petroleum, gems and jewelry, gold, jade, pearls, diamonds, lead, tin, tungsten (wolfram), tin-scheelite, silver, bronze, zinc, coal, other metals, ivory, buffaloes, cows, elephants, horses and rare animals, leather, shrimp, bran, arms, ammunitions, antiques and rubber. (references)

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Expressions using "cows": cows in milk ♦ sea cows Sirenia ♦ till the cows come home ♦ wait until the cows come home ♦ when the cows come home. Additional references.

Ending with "cows": cash-cows, cross-cows, house-cows, milk-cows, no-sacred-cows, the-cows.

Chinese 

母牛 (Cow). (various references)

Czech

do soudného dne (till the cows come home). (various references)

Danish

paelekonstruktion. (various references)

Dutch

zeekoeien (sea cows Sirenia), met moesmolens kan zowel het ruwvoer voor koeien als dat voor varkens worden vermoesd (all-purpose cutters can mash roughage for cows as well as roughage for pigs), melkvee (dairy cattle, dairy cow population, dairy herds, milch cows, milk cows). (various references)

Finnish

jäykistetty paalupari, jännitetty paalupari. (various references)

French

vaches. (various references)

German

Kühe. (various references)

Greek 

"Αγελάδες". (various references)

Hungarian

várhatsz rá sohanapjáig (wait till the cows come home), várhatsz rá ítéletnapig (wait till the cows come home), majd ha fagy (in the season of latter lammas, tomorrow never come, wait till the cows come home), fejõsök (cows in milk), fejés alatt álló tehenek (cows in milk), fejősök (cows in milk). (various references)

Italian

vacche, mucche, vacche. (various references)

Korean 

암소 (Cow). (various references)

Manx

baa (buss, of a cow, playful kiss, smack). (various references)

Pig Latin

owscay.(various references)

Portuguese

vacas. (various references)

Romanian

când vor zbura bivolii (when the cows come home, when two sundays come together). (various references)

Russian 

молочный скот (dairy cattle). (various references)

Scottish

bliochd (milk, produce of cows). (various references)

Spanish

ganado bovino lechero (dairy cattle, milch cows, milk cows), esperar la llegada de vacas (wait until the cows come home). (various references)

Swedish

pålpar anordnade som skydd mot flytande föremål. (various references)

Thai

นานมาก (คำไม่เป็นทางการ) (donkey's ages, donkey's years, till the cows come home). (various references)

Ukrainian

молочна худоба. (various references)

Welsh

gwartheg (cattle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "cows": cowshed, cowsheds, cowskin, cowskins, cowslip, cowslips. (additional references)

Words ending with "cows": scows. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cows" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acwos, ccw, ccws, cemwc, clows, cmw, cnw, coas, coow, Cotw, couw, couz, cowa, cowd, cowe, cowes, cowi, cown, cowp, cowps, cowy, coxs, cozs, cwms, cwo, Ecowash, keows, Kowski, ocs, ows. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scow.

-1 letter: cos, cow, sow, wos.

-2 letters: os, ow, so, wo.

+1 letter: chows, cowls, crows, scowl, scows.

+2 letters: cahows, chowse, clowns, cowers, crowds, crowns, escrow, scowed, scowls, sowcar, wackos.

+3 letters: chowsed, chowses, cobwebs, cogways, cowages, cowards, cowboys, cowfish, cowiest, cowpats, cowpeas, cowpies, cowries, cowshed, cowskin, cowslip, crowers, escrows, salchow, scowder, scowing, scowled, scowler, snowcap, sowcars, wackoes, whackos.

+4 letters: bawcocks, beclowns, becrowds, carassow, casework, caseworm, chowders, chowsing, clowders, clownish, coleslaw, cornrows, cowbanes, cowbells, cowbinds, cowbirds, cowflaps, cowflops, cowgirls, cowhages, cowhands, cowherbs, cowherds, cowhides, cowlicks, cowlings, cowplops, cowpokes, cowpoxes, cowrites, cowsheds, cowskins, cowslips, coxswain, crossbow, crossway, crowbars, crowders, crowdies, crowners, crownets, crowstep, curassow, cussword, cutdowns, cutworks, cutworms, decrowns, discrown, downcast, escrowed, lockjaws, outcrows, recrowns, rowlocks, salchows, scofflaw, scowders, scowlers, scowling, showcase, snowcaps, snowpack, uncrowns, wainscot, warlocks, wedlocks, welcomes, wicopies, windsock, winnocks, woodcuts, woolsack.