(n.) The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.
(v. t.) To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.
(n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(2) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(3) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
(4) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
(5) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(6) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
(7) The surface phenotypes of bovine intestinal leukocytes isolated from the intraepithelium (IEL), lamina propria (LPL) and Peyer's patches (PPL) of the small intestinal mucosa of normal adult cows were determined using monoclonal antibodies (mAb) specific to adult bovine peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL).
(8) To evaluate B cell percentage as a means of detecting subclinical progression of bovine leukemia virus infection, an index was developed based upon the distribution of B cell percentages in seronegative cows.
(9) This indicates a potential use for 1,25(OH)2D3 to prevent and treat hypocalcaemic cows with or without concurrent hypomagnesaemia.
(10) It was also established that the Y. enterocolitica strains isolated from raw cow milk did not refer to the European serotypes 0:3 and 0:9 that were pathogenic for humans.
(11) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
(12) Total white cell counts were reviewed in paediatric in-patients with viral gastroenteritis, bacterial gastroenteritis, delayed recovery following acute gastroenteritis, viral lower respiratory tract infections and cow's milk protein intolerance.
(13) In experiment II, RS cows had a higher pregnancy rate (87.6% vs 66.0%, P less than 0.05) and a shorter postpartum interval (83 vs 101 days, P less than 0.05) than did NS cows.
(14) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
(15) [3H]-oxytocin was specifically bound to the 105,000 X g particulate fractions from 5 lactating cows and 5 non-lactating cows.
(16) One hundred and forty six calving interval records were built up from 64 N'Dama cows maintained for 3.5 years under a high natural tsetse challenge in Zaire.
(17) Following parturition, NONLAC cows averaged 4.0 d to negative EB nadir and 14.3 d to first ovulation.
(18) Eight periparturient cows were on a high Ca diet prepartum.
(19) The effect on milk yield, milk leucocyte concentration, and milk prolactin of dominance rank and introduction of "strange" cows into a group was studied.
(20) Preserving alfalfa as silage and feeding in a TMR to cows in early lactation resulted in greater milk production via increased DMI or improved feed efficiency compared with preserving alfalfa as hay and feeding grain separately.
Coz
Definition:
(n.) A contraction of cousin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other is Coz Fontenot, a burly, bearded 48-year-old, who sits on a fold-out chair, splitting his time between solos on a battered violin and lead vocals.
(2) I’m not a citizen and its a little scary coz I feel very lonely.” “I am beside myself,” read another woman’s email.
(3) Bev coz she looks a bit like Beverley Callard from Coronation Street."
(4) And boys don't want to hang around you coz you're effeminate."
(5) All I know I just wanna do anything right now to forget.” He referred to the staff at the reception centre as a “heartless machine”, adding: “I told them two weeks ago, please shoot us to relax us coz this not human, I would swear.” A Home Office spokesperson said: “It would be inappropriate to comment on ongoing legal proceedings.” In the UK, the Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123.
(6) It's when Rosalind says to Celia: "O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou didst know how many fathom deep I am in love.
(7) For further information on Coz Fontenot, go to www.cozfontenot.com .
(8) Over on a makeshift stage, Coz Fontenot sits stoically with his violin, singing in that high, lonesome, wonderfully timeless voice.
(9) "Coz I knew I would fuckin' kill them if they fucked with me."
(10) injection of Fluosol-DA 20% without hydroxy-ethylstarch in combination with carbogen (95% Oz and 5% COz) elevated dose-dependently the tumor POz in AH-109A tumor-bearing rats.
(11) Behind all the bragging and bravado of the Beach Boys' biggest hits – "We always take my car coz it's never been beat, and we've never missed yet with the girls we meet" – a strange, rather desperate sadness kept seeping out on B-sides and album tracks: In My Room, Please Let Me Wonder, In The Back Of My Mind.
(12) It was also found that lung volume had no effect on the calculated COZ.
(13) When Coz Fontenot sings, the sound is so arresting as to make the supporting musicians recede into the background.
(14) UNEMP rate falling only coz of lab force part rate, most components of demand lower.
(15) 3-Hydroxy-3-methyglutaryl-CoA and mevalonate concentrations in the tissue homogenate are estimated in terms of absorbances and the ratio between the two is taken as an index of activity of the enzyme, which catalyzes the conversion of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoZ to mevalonate.
(16) TN Just being able to live it (v difficult to answer coz a good life is hard to describe).
(17) The Green party member of the London assembly, who is standing as a prospective parliamentary candidate in Lewisham Deptford, seems to have bumped into a semi-discerning voter: Amusing doorstep response: "I'm sick of political corruption but even if you were corrupt I'd vote for you coz you've got the right policies".