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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Cow \Cow\, n.; pl. {Cows} (kouz); old pl. {Kine} (k[imac]n).
     [OE. cu, cou, AS. c[=u]; akin to D. koe, G. kuh, OHG. kuo,
     Icel. k[=y]r, Dan. & Sw. ko, L. bos ox, cow, Gr. boy^s, Skr.
     g[=o]. [root]223. Cf. {Beef}, {Bovine}, {Bucolic}, {Butter},
     {Nylghau}.]
     1. The mature female of bovine animals.
  
     2. The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals,
        etc.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cows
       n : domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or
           age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come
           home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team
           of oxen" [syn: {cattle}, {kine}, {oxen}, {Bos taurus}]

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