*Cow-baby. A childish fellow, a simpleton (S.).—S.W.
Cow-clap. A form of Cow-clat, q.v.—N.W.
Cow-clat, Cow-clap. A pat of cow-dung (A.).—N.W.
*Cow-down. A cow-common (Agric. Survey).—Obsolete.
Cows-and-Calves. (1) Arum maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint.—S.W. (2) When a saw has alternately long and short teeth, they are known as cows and calves respectively.—N.W.
Cowshard. Cow-clat.—N.W.
*Cowshorne. Cow-clats. Obsolete.
'The poore people gather the cowshorne in the meadows.'—Jackson's Aubrey, p. 192.
*Cow-white. See White.
*Crab. To abuse (Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. xxii. p. 110). Compare North Eng. crab, to provoke, and crob, to reproach. Originally a hawking term, hawks being said to crab when they stood too near and fought one with another. See Folk-Etymology, p. 81 (Smythe-Palmer).—N.W. (Cherhill.)