What is "to dry a cow"

Dry \Dry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dried; p. pr. & vb. n. Drying.] [AS. drygan; cf. drugian to grow dry. See Dry, a.] To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay. To dry up.

1. To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume.

   Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. -- Is. v. 13.

   The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun.
   --Woodward.

2. To make to cease, as a stream of talk.

   Their sources of revenue were dried up. -- Jowett (Thucyd. )

   To dry a cow, or To dry up a cow, to cause a cow to cease secreting milk.
   --Tylor.