| 单词 | humlie-cow |
| 释义 | > as lemmashumlie-cow A hummel or polled cow. Also attributive, as humlie-cow. In quots. 1818, 1825-80 transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > horn > cow defined by muley1570 humlie1813 moulleen1830 1813 J. Headrick Gen. View Agric. Angus 439 A great proportion of the permanent stock are humlies, that is, they have no horns. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 70 I gat the humle-cow, that's the best in the byre..for ten pund Scots. 1818 R. Jamieson in E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (ed. 5) II. 104 In the days of our grandfathers the lower class of Highlanders were..denominated humblies, from their wearing no covering on their head but their hair. 1825–80 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Humlock, Humlie, ‘a polled cow; also a person whose head has been shaved, or hair cut’. < as lemmas |
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