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noun
Cosset  n.  A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.






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"Cosset" Quotes from Famous Books



... and heard in Wyoming might have been the "chuck" of my native hills. The eagle is an eagle the world over. When I was a boy I saw, one autumn day, an eagle descend with extended talons upon the backs of a herd of young cattle that were accompanied by a cosset-sheep and were feeding upon a high hill. The object of the eagle seemed to be to separate the one sheep from the cattle, or to frighten them all into breaking their necks in trying to escape him. But neither result did he achieve. In ...
— Ways of Nature • John Burroughs



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