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Udder n.

(Anat.) The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma. "A lioness, with udders all drawn dry."

One of the breasts of a woman. (R.) "Yon Juno of majestic size, With cowlike udders, and with oxlike eyes."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Usurping where the fairest herbage smiled: Nor Hunger driven the herds from pastures bare, To climb the treacherous cliffs for scanty fare. [104] 395 Then the milk-thistle flourished through the land, And forced the full-swoln udder to demand, Thrice every day, the pail and welcome hand. [105] Thus does the father to his children tell Of banished bliss, by fancy loved too well. [106] 400 Alas! that human guilt provoked the rod [107] Of angry Nature to avenge her God. ...

— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Volume 1 of 8 • Edited by William Knight

... Uncle Isham, "dar ain't on'y one place fur dat. It's de clober fiel', ober dar, on de udder side ob ...

— The Late Mrs. Null • Frank Richard Stockton

... put up was, so the auctioneer said, station-bred and in full milk. She was a wild-looking brute, with three enormous teats and a large, fleshy udder. The catalogue ...

— On Our Selection • Steele Rudd

... you we are almost on a cow. It is old Whiteback; I know her by her horns. Feel; she is here in the lane with us, and within reach of your hand. A gentler animal is not in the settlement. But, stop—pass your hand on her udder—she will not stir— how is ...

— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper

... their bulk; limbs very solid; head large, forehead narrow, very strong, convex; chaffron straight; muzzle square, horns lying flat, or bending laterally with a certain direction to the rear; eyes large; ears mostly funnel-shaped; no hunch; a small dewlap; female udder with four ...

— Delineations of the Ox Tribe • George Vasey

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