Definition of Cow

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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.

Related Definitions:

As, Bovine, Brake, Cap, Car, Certain, Check, Chimney, Chock, Courage, Cowl, Daunt, Depress, Fear, Female, Large, Machine, Mammals, Mature, Motion, Of, Or, Overawe, The, To, Wedge, With

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

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

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

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

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

This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
Gary Larson

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

This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.
Jack Abramoff

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

Quotes