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The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.

To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. Cowper.

ants nearly related to Pulmonaria. The American lungwort is Mertensia Virginica, Virginia cowslip. Gray. Cow's lungwort mullein. -- Sea lungwort, Mertensia maritima, found on the seacoast of Northern Europe and America. -- Tree lungwort, a lichen (Sticta pulmonacea) growing on trees and rocks. The thallus is lacunose…

ary properties; as, a magic lantern; a magic square or circle. The painter's magic skill. Cowper.

Majestic. Cowley. An older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. M. Arnold. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ness, n.

n has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties. Cowper.

Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; -- called alsosea cow. [Written also manaty, manati.]

ng bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. See Cowslip.

A market. Where has commerce such a mart . . . as London Cowper.

Improperly, the cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum).

To skulk; to cower. See Mich.

The saccharine substance dulcite; -- so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite.

The milk given by a cow at one milking. [U.S.]

uildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household. Cowell. Bouvier. They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. Tennyson.

Hiding; skulking; cowardly. [Colloq.] [Written also meaching and meeching.]

Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle; also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after calving. -- Milk glass, glass having a milky appearance. -- Milk knot (Med.), a hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands. -- Milk…

ng in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to…

White-livered; cowardly; timorous.

One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.

A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.