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Cow. 
The breese upon her, like a cow in June 
Hoists sails and flies, 
Antony anp CLEOPATRA, iil, 10, 14. 
Wuen the kine do oft calve and have many calves, it 
is a token as men mean that in winter shall be much rain. 
And when they have sore feet, it is medicine therefor 
to anoint them between the horns with oil and pitch and 
other medicines. And have the gout and die of that evil; 
and the token thereof is when they bear down their ears, 
and eat not. And when she is stung with a great fly, - 
then she raiseth up her tail in a wonder wise, and startleth 
as she were wood about fields and plains. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xviii. § 109. 
Tue hoofs of the fore-feet of a Cow dried, and made 
in fine powder, increaseth milk in nurses if they eat it in 
their pottage, or use it in their drink; and being cast 
upon burning coals, the smoke thereof doth kill mice, or 
at the least doth drive them away. 
Lupton, “A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. i. § 4. 
Cowslip. 
Freckled cowslip. 
Kine Henry V., v. 2, 49. 
Cowstip, because the cow licketh this flower up with 
her lips. Minsheu’s Dictionary, 5.0. 
Cows.ips [or] two-in-a-hose. Gerara’s “Herbal,” 5.0. 
Crab. 
If like a crab you could go backward. , 
: Hamtet, ii. 2, 206. 
Great cold grieveth them [i.c., fish] sore, and namely 
them that have stones in their heads as Crabs and other 
such, For the stone in the head runneth and freezeth, 
and such a fish dieth soon. Also the Crab is enemy to 
the oyster, for he liveth by fish thereof with a wonderful 
wit. For because that ye [? he] may not open the hard 
shell of the oyster, he spieth and awaiteth when the oyster 
openeth, and then the Crab (that lieth in await) taketh a 
little stone, and putteth between the shells, that the oyster 
