cow

v. frighten, intimidate

n. adult female bovine (especially one which is raised to supply milk or meat); adult female of various large mammals (i.e. elephant, whale, etc.)

For general information about the genus, including other species of cattle, see Bos. For other uses of terms associated with cattle, see Cow (disambiguation), bull, and Ox (disambiguation). Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows (though technically cow refers only to female bovines), are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat (called beef and veal), dairy products (milk), leather and as draught animals (pulling carts, plows and the like). In some countries, such as India, they are honored in religious ceremonies and revered. It is estimated that there are 1.3 billion head of cattle in the world today.
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Copy-on-write (sometimes referred to as "COW") is an optimization strategy used in computer programming. The fundamental idea is that if multiple callers ask for resources which are initially indistinguishable, you can give them pointers to the same resource. This fiction can be maintained until a caller tries to modify its "copy" of the resource, at which point a true private copy is created to prevent the changes becoming visible to everyone else. All of this happens transparently to the callers. The primary advantage is that if a caller never makes any modifications, no private copy need ever be created.
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Cow may refer to:The female of several species of mammal, including bovines, whales, seals and elephants and Cattle Insulting term for an obese or unpleasant woman Vacas, Cows in English, is a 1991 Spanish filmAl-Baqara, "the Cow", the second chapter of the Qur'anAn intelligent or powerful programmer in Chinese informatics competitions e.g. National Olympiad in Informatics, ChinaCow (Cow & Chicken), a female character on the animated series Cow & Chicken"Cows" (song), a song by Grandaddy from their 1992 album Prepare to BawlThe Cows, noise rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota formed in 1987 and disbanded in 1998
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(v. t.)
To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.
  

(n.)
The mature female of bovine animals.
  

(n.)
The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.
  

(n.)
A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.
  

(n.)
A chimney cap; a cowl
  

Cow The ancients employed certain animals as symbols to convey specific aspects of philosophical and religious teachings to the multitude, and "the cow-symbol is one of the grandest and most philosophical among all others in its inner meaning" (SD 2:470). Generally, the cow represents the fructifying power in nature -- the Divine Mother or feminine principle. Among the Scandinavians that which first appeared at the birth of the universe was the divine cosmic cow, Audhumla, from whom flowed four streams of milk, providing sustenance to all the beings that followed. Among the Greeks the founding of a new race was associated with the cow -- as instances, Io and Europa. In Egypt the goddesses representing the aspect of the Universal Mother are associated with cow symbols, principally Hathor and Isis. In India the cow symbol is reverenced: Kamaduh or Surabhi (the cow of plenty) represents the nourishing and sustaining vital and productive principle in nature. The goddesses of lunar type are found to be connected in symbology with the cow.
"The cow was in every country the symbol of the passive generative power of nature, Isis, Vach, Venus -- the mother of the prolific god of love, Cupid, but, at the same time, that of the Logos whose symbol became with the Egyptians and the Indians -- the bull -- as testified to by Apis and the Hindu bulls in the most ancient temples. In esoteric philosophy the cow is the symbol of creative nature, and the Bull (her calf) the spirit which vivifies her, or 'the Holy Spirit' " (SD 2:418n). See also BULL ; CALF 

a cow; increasing