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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A colt.

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Examples

  • This was a horse-cloth with which we had intended to saddle the "cowt," and that had remained, during the supernatural agency under which we laboured, clutched unconsciously and convulsively in our grasp.

    Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

  • July 10, 2009 at 9:22 am fangs, ap! eye fought sew, 2, butt kitteh can onlee cowt up 2 elebenty, aifinkso!

    See if you drop a Great - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • August 18, 2008 at 12:08 am ohai hashim! ai c u can has another nawt sekkund… nao u can has coek an fresh kitteh-cowt phishehs?

    Yes I catchez demz dis mornin’! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • August 18, 2008 at 12:28 am i cowt u som phishehs… but i eated it…

    Yes I catchez demz dis mornin’! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • “They were daft callants,” she said, “and that was all — when the drink was in, the wit was out — ye could not put an auld head upon young shouthers — a young cowt will canter, be it up-hill or down — and what for no?” was her uniform conclusion.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • But: "Weel, I wadna say but there micht mebbes hae been twa cowt at the tae end o 'the tethers," he admitted, on being pressed by the Earl.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • -- "It'll be Jean come in frae the pump," she reflected, after a moment's pause; but, hearing no footstep along the passage to the kitchen, concluded -- "It's no her, for she gangs aboot the hoose like the fore half o 'a new shod cowt;" and went down the stair to see who might have thus presumed to enter unbidden.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • Owd Isaac wur sit i'th parlour, havin 'a glass wi' a chap that he'd bin sellin 'a cowt to. Th' little lass went bouncin 'into th' reawm to him; an 'hoo said,' Eh, father, th 'new weshin'-machine's come'd!'

    Th' Barrel Organ Edwin Waugh 1853

  • "They were daft callants," she said, "and that was all -- when the drink was in, the wit was out -- ye could not put an auld head upon young shouthers -- a young cowt will canter, be it up-hill or down -- and what for no?" was her uniform conclusion.

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

  • * A Northern cowt once, indeed, did honor this animal with a particular mark of approbation and reiped j but the fidelity of the dog has fince given place to the fagacity

    Thoughts Upon Hunting: In a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend 1782

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