a. nonce-wd. [f. COW sb. + -LESS.] Destitute of cows.
1853. Delazon Smith, in Des Moines Courier, 10 March, 1/2. If I had started with ten and worked them all I might now have one cow instead of being, as I am, cowless.
1890. G. Allen, in Longm. Mag., March, 514. It is grassless and cowless; its only milk is goat’s.
