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domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age as wait till the cows come home...
Beef
An animal of the genus Bos especially the common species Bos taurus including the bull cow and ox in their full grown state esp an ox or cow fattened for food...
Cowleech
One who heals diseases of cows a cow doctor...
Meat
Meat, retail dealers in: see (English) Retail Meat Dealers' Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 30), which provides for the compulsory closing of retail meat traders' shops and stalls on Sunday, with exemption in respect to Jewish retail dealers in meat, who may keep open on Sunday under license, on giving notice to the local authority and displaying notices as provided by the Act, but he must not keep open on Saturday. As to inspection and destruction of unsound meat, see (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 50), s. 180, and see UNSOUND FOOD.Meat includes blood, bones, sinew, eggs, shell or carapace, fat and flesh with or without skin, whether raw or cooked, or any wild animal or captive animal, other than a vermin. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(20)]Meat, the dictionary meaning of the word meat in terms of Webster's New International Dictionary is as 'meat-flesh of animals used as food as distinguished f...
Pawn or Pledge
Pawn or Pledge [fr. pignus, Lat.], a bailment of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to be kept till the debt is discharged.A mortgage of goods is in the Common Law distinguishable from a mere pledge or pawn. By a mortgage the whole legal title passes conditionally to the mortgagee; and if the goods be not redeemed at the stipulated time, the title becomes absolute at law although equity allows a redemption. But in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledgor. Also, in the case of a pledge, the right of a pledgee is not consummated, except by possession; and, ordinarily, when that possession is relinquished, the right of the pledgee is extinguished or waived. But, in the case of a mortgage of personal property the right of property passes by the conveyance to the mortgagee, and the possession is not or may not be essential to create or support the title.As to things which may be the subject of pawn: These are, ordinarily, goods a...
Bears breech
The English cow parsnip Heracleum sphondylium...
Biestings
The first milk given by a cow after calving...
Boose
A stall or a crib for an ox cow or other animal...
Byre
A cow house...
Calf
The young of the cow or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds Also the young of some other mammals as of the elephant rhinoceros hippopotamus and whale...
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