to dry up a cow
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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. [1913 Webster]
To dry up. (a) To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume. [1913 Webster]
Their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.— Is. v. 13.[1913 Webster]
The water of the sea, which formerly covered it, was in time exhaled and dried up by the sun.— Woodward. (b) To make to cease, as a stream of talk.[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]