Definition for COW

COW, n. [plur. cows; old plur. kine. Sax. cu; D. koe; G. kuh; Sw. ko; Dan. koe; L. ceva; Hindoo gaj, or gou; Pers. koh; Pahlavi, gao; Sans. go, a cow, and gau, ox, godama, a cowherd; Heb. געה, to low.]

The female of the bovine genus of animals; a quadruped with cloven hoofs, whose milk furnishes an abundance of food and profit to the farmer. Sea-cow, the Manatus, a species of the Trichechus. [See Sea-cow.]

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