The same wider connections can be hypothesized for the " cow " derivation: the Boeotians have been known for well over a century as a people of kine, which might have been parallel to the meaning of Italy as a " land of calves.

One of the most unique marine mammals living in the Persian Gulf is Dugong dugon, commonly referred to as the dugong, or the " sea cow ".

The cobra ( of Pharaoh Son of Ra ), the lioness ( daughter of Ra ), the cow ( daughter of Ra ), the dominant symbols of the most ancient Egyptian deities, carried their relationship to the sun atop their heads ; they were female and their cults remained active throughout the history of the culture.

In most dialects of English, the words eye, hay, boy, low, and cow contain diphthongs.

According to the Indian medical literature and Tantric Buddhist scriptures, most of the " seizers ," or those that threaten the lives of young children, appear in animal form: cow, lion, fox, monkey, horse, dog, pig, cat, crow, pheasant, owl, and snake.

Notably, even after assuming the formal regalia, Hatshepsut still described herself as a beautiful woman, often as the most beautiful of women, and although she assumed almost all of her father's titles, she declined to take the title " The Strong Bull " ( the full title being, The Strong Bull of his Mother ), which tied the pharaoh to the goddesses Isis, the throne, and Hathor, ( the cow who gave birth to and protected the pharaohs )— by being her son sitting on her throne — an unnecessary title for her, since Hatshepsut became allied with the goddesses, herself, which no male pharaoh could.

In his book Food of the Gods, ethnobotanist Terence McKenna postulates that the most likely candidate for Soma is the mushroom Psilocybe cubensis, a hallucinogenic mushroom that grows in cow dung in certain climates.

In 1897, the Walker-Gordon Dairy Farm opened up, which, among many other things, contributed Elsie the Cow, possibly the most famous cow ever, and The Walker Gordon Diner, which has since been closed.

It is precisely in the fields of study relating to massive selection pressures against which other species seem to be without defences-biological development in the face of novel pandemics ( AIDS, mad cow disease )- that the arguments relative to the natural heredity of intelligent acquirements have resurfaced in a way most challenging to science.

Carnival here is one of the most original in Spain with the Cigarrón, masked figures running through the streets brandishing whips and making an interesting sound caused by cow bells tied to their waists ( See zanpantzar for a similar tradition in the Pyrenees ).

The most common word for cow is go, cognate with the English cow and Latin bos, all from PIE cognates

In Albania, meat ( lamb, cow, rabbit and chicken ) is used heavily in various dishes in most of the country.

One of the most prominently popular and acknowledged Jaanapada song is Dharani mandala madhyadolage which narrates an incidence between mother cow and an aggressive tiger in a country called Karnata

Among the most popular are fried or stewed brains ; boiled stomach ( trippa ), often served in a tomato sauce ; lampredotto ( the fourth stomach of the cow ), boiled in broth and seasoned with parsley sauce and chili ; liver ( stir-fried with onions, roasted ); kidneys ; heart and coronaries ( coratella or animelle ); head, eyes, and testicles of pig ; and several preparations based on chicken entrails.

Because most milkers milk cattle in groups, the milker can only process a group of cows at the speed of the slowest-milking cow.

As a consequence of the fear of mad cow disease and a ban on imports of beef from the United States, Yoshinoya and most competitors were forced to terminate gyūdon sales in Japan on February 11, 2004.

Perhaps the most significant is that displayed at its Matriculation Dinner, where new undergraduates are made to form two lines and drink wine from the ' Homerton Horn ' - an African cow horn with silver mounts, whilst speaking several Anglo-Saxon phrases to one another ( including the greeting " Wassail!

*-tjie for most other words: soen → soentjie ( kiss ), koei → koeitjie ( cow ), appel → appeltjie ( apple )

Perhaps the most famous of all his parts was when he played in the " hababam sinifi " and was known by the name of " Şaban " but most of his class mates just call him inek ( cow ) Şaban.

They even planned to cow the enemy with a decisive blow from their massive great cannon ( later named Grand Cannon ) which they were convinced was of greater firepower than what the Zentradi possessed, despite knowledgeable warnings that was most definitely not the case.

By the time a cow is in full estrus, only the most dominant bull in the herd / subherd is there.

They were shape-shifters, most often seen in the form of a horse or a cow, but who could also take on the appearance of humans.

The milk may be from a cow, goat, sheep or buffalo, although worldwide cow's milk is most commonly used.

The shepherd, scared, gave him the horn of the cow, which, when seized by the giant man, was immediately broken.

If a cow is left unmilked just once she is likely to reduce milk-production almost immediately and the rest of the season may see her dried off ( giving no milk ) and still consuming feed for no production.

If cattle are driven into, or of their own accord enter, the water, they are commonly not molested ; but if by chance some unusually big or ferocious specimen of these fearsome fishes does bite an animal — taking off part of an ear, or perhaps of a teat from the udder of a cow — the blood brings up every member of the ravenous throng which is anywhere near, and unless the attacked animal can immediately make its escape from the water it is devoured alive.

On its third firing the chain snapped immediately and one ball tore into a nearby cabin, knocking down its chimney, the other spun off erratically and struck a nearby cow, killing it instantly.

Instead of immediately leaving the small town he robs a gun-shop of a pump action shotgun and 00 buckshot ammunition which he uses to cow two policemen-the first to respond to the clerk's phone tip-and destroy their patrol-vehicle.

The next player, X, must immediately repeat the phrase, using his / her own number and another player for X (" I am the spotted cow with zero spots number X, and I call the cow with zero spots number Y "), where Y is the number of any other player.

* the trump immediately below the double: the " cow " or " moo-moo "

Word was dispatched to Archbishop Wilfred of Canterbury, and a party was sent into Worcestershire where the local population were able to guess immediately where the body lay, because of the cow.

No cow thief could count on a jury of his sympathetic peers to free him any longer.

A cow owned by an old woman trespassed on Gorton's land.

Jay Gould kept a cow on one deluxer.

The cow, unlike a bull or steer, kept her eyes open and her mind on her business when chargin', and a cow `` on the prod '' or `` on the peck '' was feared by the cowhand more than any of his other charges.

In large, atmospheric panoramas of the countryside, the highlights on a blade of meadow grass, the mane of a tranquil horse, the horn of a dairy cow reclining by a stream, or the tip of a peasant's hat are all caught in a bath of yellow ocher light.

In September 2007, the UK reported its first ever suspected case of the disease, in a Highland cow on a rare breeds farm near Ipswich, Suffolk.

for the Terrified, which was originally set up in Wedmore in 1999, is based in an old cow shed on the school's grounds.

A cow lying on its side

Cow tipping or cow pushing is the purported activity of sneaking up on a sleeping, upright cow and pushing it over for one's entertainment.

* In a 1994 episode of the popular animated television series Beavis and Butt-head, the two eponymous characters, after watching a milk ad on television, set out to tip over a cow, only to result in Beavis being crushed when the cow falls on him.

Self-portrait of G. K. Chesterton based on the distributist slogan " Three acres and a cow ".

On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, a boy eight years old ( the son of Jenner's gardener ), with pus scraped from the cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St George's medical school library ( now in Tooting ).

An example of a mechanical vector is a housefly, which lands on cow dung, contaminating its appendages with bacteria from the feces, and then lands on food prior to consumption.