CATTLE— cow 91 



Cattle and cows for the word " erodh " seem interchangeable, 

 but the above are selections of the first rendering. (See art. Cow.) 



The following is a herd's rhyme : — 



Bata beithe, beiridh an crodh ; bata calltainn, call air a chrodh ; 

 bata daraichj dair air a chrodh, etc. The alliterative clink is 

 wanting in the English translation of — A birchen stick, the cattle 

 will calve ; a hazel stick, the cattle are lost ; an oaken stick, the 

 cattle in heat. 



Mac bantraich aig am bheil moran buar. 



The son of a widow who has plenty of cattle. A desirable 

 " parti." 

 Toradh na feudalach gun am faicinn. 



The fruit of the cattle, without seeing them, or that have not 

 been seen. 



COLT. — Biorach, bioraiche, bramach, bromach, bulta ; Cleobag, 

 cleobag-each (shaggy), colbthach, colpa, colpindach ; lomach, 

 ionnach ; Loth, lurchaire ; Modh-searrach ; Searr, searrach. 



Clip (Aberd.). 



CONEY (see Rabbit). 



COW. — Adli, err. for agh (a two-year-old), ag, ag ndara (Ir.) (a 

 bulled cow), agh-alluidh (wild), ai, aidreach (milch), airghir, aith- 

 each, aithre, aithrinne (quey), aoideach, arcra (dry, Ir.), atharla 

 (young), ath-ghamh-nach (two-year-old and calfless) ; Ba (prop, pi., 

 Ir. bath or bu), bailg-fhionn (a white-bellied), beathach, beothach, 

 beutail, bireid, biride (breeding), blarag (a white-faced), bleanach, 

 bleodhannach (fuU-uddered, milking), bliochd-laith (milch), bo, bo- 

 alluidh (wild), bo-beannach (horned), bo-derba (a milch cow), bo- 

 ghamhna (farrow), bois, boiscne (wild, or of the woods), bol, bo-lan 

 (full-grown), bo-laogh (milch), bo-slabhraidh (dower kine), boss 

 (fat, Ir.), bo-ursann (door-post, proprietors'), brogaidh (that putts 

 with horns), byuch (Welsh) ; Caisionnach (spotted), cait-chinn, 

 cas-fhionn (white-footed), ceann-fhionn (white-faced or headed), 

 ciar-dubh, cleathar, cleathar-fed or sed (milch), colam (young), colb- 

 thach, colbthach seamlach or shamlach (uncalved), colpa, colpach, 

 colpindach, cowda, crodh, crodh-caoch (hornless), crodh-crin, crud, 

 crurd (Old Ir.) ; Dabh, damh (prop, ox), dartaig (yearling), di- 

 millteach (destructive), diosc, diosg (barren), driomain-dubh, druim- 

 fhionn (white-backed), dubhag (blackie) ; Earc, earca, ere, earc 

 or erc-iucna (Caledonian), echtge ; Fearb, fedoil, ferb, ferra 

 (not milking), feudail, fionn, fiun, fuin ; Gabhla (breeding), 

 gabhnach, gamhnach (farrow), geo (Ir.), greama (streaked), gream- 

 aeitidh, grioma, gual-fhionn (white-shouldered), guarag, guarag- 

 bleothainn (milch), guarthog-blithion (Ir.) ; Laeb (Old Ir.), laithre, 

 lannair, lannoir, laob (Old Ir.), laogh-ligheach (newly calved), 



