mool (mo)

i. [Imitative of the lowing of a Cf. mew2, imitative of the crying of a cat.] 1. To utter the characteristic cry of a cow; low. I used to smell the gra , and see the dew shining, and hear the pretty sweet cows a mooing . Mrs. Trollope , Michael Armstrong, xxiv. (Davies.) 2. To make a noise like lowing. [Rare.] The mooing of the waters seemed to deepen, more and more abysmally, through all the hours of darkne . Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 738.