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Cow"blakes` (-blāks`), n. pl.
Dried cow dung used as fuel.[Prov. Eng.]
Simmonds.

Cow"boy` (-boi`), n.
1. A cattle herder; a drover; specifically,
one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains
of the Western and Southwestern United States.

2. One of the marauders who, in the
Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the
American and British lines, and committed depredations on the
Americans.

Cow"catch`er (-k?ch`?r), n. A
strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of
a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on
a railway, as cattle; the pilot. [U.S.]

Cow"die (kou"d&ybreve;), n.
(Bot.) See Kauri.

Cow"er (kou"&etilde;r), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Cowered (kou"&etilde;rd);
p. pr. & vb. n. Cowering.] [Cf.


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