cow bunting

The same as Cow-BIRD, 1 (q.v.). cow-cakes, 8. Wild Parsnip. The Heracleum IMG:content-1201.png:[graphic] II. Theol.: The desire for what is not one's own, whether it be money, other property, or anything else of a desirable kind. In Mahratta, lobh (covet- ousne ) is often used for lust or concupiscence with Dut. koe ; Icel. kýr ; Sw. & Dan. ko ; O. H. tris. (Jamie son.) cow (1), *cou, *cu, *ku (pl. * ky , * kie , * kye , * kine ,& hondylium of Linn. is called the Cow-parsnip. * kuyn , * kin , cows ), s. & a. [A. S. cu (pl. cy). Cogn. But this seems rather to be the Pastinaca sylves- cow-calf, s. 1. A female calf, as contradistinguished from a bull-calf, which is a male one. 2. A hermaphrodite, to all appearance a young cow, but which cannot propagate its kind; a free martin. (See the extract.) "It is a fact known, and I believe almost universally understood, that when a cow brings forth two calves, and one of them a bull-calf, and the other to appearance a cow, that the cow - calf is unfit for propagation, but the bull-calf grows up into a very proper bull. Such a cow calf is called in this country a Free Martin it is a hermaphrodite (being in no respect different from otrer hermaphrodites) "-John Hunter: Account of the Free Martin. A bugbear, one who intimidates cow-carl, 8. others.