Horns curving inward. Obs.
1642. [The moon] ’gins swell, and waxen bug with horn.—H. More, ‘The Immortality of the Soul,’ 63. (N.E.D.)
1766. Strayed away, a small dark brown Cow, with bug Horns.—Mass. Gazette, Oct. 23.
1769. Strayed, a Heifer, brown and white, with short bug Horns.—Id., Nov. 23.
1809. A middling sized red cow, with bug horns.—Advt., Mass. Spy, Sept. 27.
1819. A stray Cow, of a deep red colour, having “bug horns” (so called).—Id., June 2.
1821. Strayed, a pair of three-year-old Steers,—one of brown colour, with bug horns,—and the other with large broad horns.—Id., Aug. 22.
1823. Came into the enclosure of the subscriber,… a Red Cow, with a white face and bug horned.—Somerset (Me.) Journal, Nov. 28, p. 1/1 (Advt.).
