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LEFT COVERDALE 179 COWDRAY of these still exists in the processional show in honor of Lady Godiva {q, v.). There are still a few narrow and irreg- ular streets, lined with houses in the style of the 15th and 16th centuries. There are several fine churches. Coven- try is the center of the ribbon trade. Pop. (1918) 119,023. COVERDALE, MILES, the earliest translator of the Bible into English; was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1487. He was educated at Cambridge, and was ordained priest in 1514. He was led some years afterward to em- brace the reformed doctrines, and, hav- ing gone abroad, assisted Tindall in his translation of the Bible. In 1535 his own translation of the Scriptures ap- peared, with a dedication to Henry VIII. Coverdale was almoner to Queen Cath- arine Parr, and officiated at her funeral. In 1551, daring the reign of Edward VI., he was appointed Bishop of Exeter, but was ejected on the accession of Mary, and thrown into prison. After two years* confinement he was liberated, and proceeded first to Denmark, and subse- quently to (Geneva, where he was em- ployed in preparing the Geneva trans- lation of the Scriptures. On the accession of Elizabeth he returned to England, and held for a short time the rectory of St. Magnus, London Bridge. He died in London, in 1568. COVINGTON, a city and county-seat of Kenton co., Ky.; on the Ohio river, opposite Cincinnati, which which it is connected by a handsome suspension bridge, 2,250 feet long, and costing $2,000,000. It is on the Louisville and Nashville and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads. Electric lines connect it with near-by towns. It is a residence town for Cincinnati business men and is the see of a Catholic bishop. Covington is the farming and live-stock producing and trade center of central Kentucky, and has steamer connections with all river ports. The principal manufactories are cotton and woolen mills, rolling mills, to- bacco factories, etc. Previous to the enactment of prohibition there were many distilleries. In 1919 there were 3 National banks, with $1,150,000 capital, and several daily and weekly news- papers. Covington is built on a beauti- ful plain, and has an area of over 5 square miles. The most notable build- ings are the combined City Hall and Court House; the United States Govern- ment building, including the Postoffice and Federal Court rooms; the Public Library, the Roman Catholic Cathedral, and the Hospital of St. Elizabeth. Cov- ington was settled in 1812; laid out in 1815, and incorporated as a city in 1834. Pop. (1910) 53,270; (1920) 57,121. COW, the female of the bovine species called the ox {Bos tawrus), of which the bull is the nale. Like other domestic animals it has run into numerous varie- ties, and its primitive uniformity has given rise to manifold diversity. Nor is it in color alone that it has alterated. It has done so in form, besides which, there are horned and hornless oxen. The Dar- winian principle of natural selection with the survival of the fittest has adapted cattle of different sizes and qualities to different parts of the coun- try; little, active cattle, thriving on the scanty herbage found high up the moun- tainside, and large, heavy, slow-going cattle of luxurious proclivities falling off unless they are allowed to revel amid the rank vegetation of river sides and meadows. The latter furnish the great- est quantity of milk. See Dairy. COWBANE, or WATER-HEMLOCK {Cicuta virosa), a perennial, umbellifer- ous, aquatic plant, producing an erect, hollow, much-branched, striated stem three or four feet high, furnished with dissected leaves. It is highly poisonous. COW-BERRY, the red whortleberry, a procumbent shrub of high moorlands in Europe, Asia, and North America, has evergreen, box-like leaves, and produces a red acid berry used for jellies and pre- serves. COWBOYS, in the American Revolu- tion, a band of American Tories who in- fested the neutral ground of Westches- ter county, N. Y., robbed the Whigs and Loyalists, and made a specialty of steal- ing cattle. A similar band of marau- ders on the British side received the name of "Skinners." The word cow- boys is now used to designate the men who have charge of the cattle on the vast ranges in the W. and S. W. of the United States. Many of them were en- listed in two regiments of cavalry for the war with Spain, and, under the pop- ular name of "Rough Riders," greatly distinguished themselves in the early part of the campaign against Santiagro, in Cuba. COWDRAY, WEETMAN DICKINSON PEARSON, Viscount, a British capital- ist, born in 1856. He contested Colches- ter for Parliament in 1892, and was elected for that city as a liberal in 1895, representing it till 1910. He was made a baronet in 1894, baron in 1910. and viscount in 1916. He was largely in- strumental in building up the oil inter- ests of S. Pearson and Son, Ltd., of which he was president. During the war he was President of the Air Board.