cow dung


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Noun1.cow dung - a piece of dried bovine dung
droppings, dung, muck - fecal matter of animals
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In the old days he used to be taken out by the young men when they went hunting wild goats, or deer, or hares, but now that his master was gone he was lying neglected on the heaps of mule and cow dung that lay in front of the stable doors till the men should come and draw it away to manure the great close; and he was full of fleas.
"Hear me," he cried, "and help my feet, O goddess." Thus did he pray, and Pallas Minerva heard his prayer; she made his hands and his feet feel light, and when the runners were at the point of pouncing upon the prize, Ajax, through Minerva's spite slipped upon some offal that was lying there from the cattle which Achilles had slaughtered in honour of Patroclus, and his mouth and nostrils were all filled with cow dung. Ulysses therefore carried off the mixing-bowl, for he got before Ajax and came in first.
At the farm, Mr Molosiwa runs a home-made organic gas manufacturing operation, which processes cow dung in order to produce gas for cooking, lighting and heating.
Summary: Thrissur (Kerala) [India], July 29 (ANI): In a bizarre incident, Youth Congress activists sprinkled cow dung water to allegedly purify a PWD office, where a CPI Dalit MLA Geetha Gopi had staged a protest recently.
At this juncture, local people, specially people of ward number-33, have urged the authorities not to allow any cattle market on the road as it hampers their normal movement and creates health hazards due to cow dung, cow urine and foul smell.
India, June 17 -- An ordeal for my mother was to plaster the floors of our house with diluted cow dung once in one and a half months.
(b) Cow dung and urine (gau, gober and gau mutra) could prevent radiation when used to construct a bunker or rubbed on a mobile phone.
Said customer did not take kindly to this, so decided to drag the establishment with a scathing review on TripAdvisor, where he called the service "second to cow dung".
I also use dried cow dung from the dairy unit to feed the fish.
Authorities said they have planned to make these cow hostels self-sustaining by using cow dung and urine for commercial purposes.
She had allegedly coated the baby's injuries with cow dung, but the girl died within hours.
Walnut trees infested with plant parasitic nematodes were treated with different organic amendments pigeon manure, horse dung, cow dung, duck manure and castor oil cakes at the rate of 8 Kg/tree and saw dust at the rate of 10kg/tree, respectively.