cowsense noun2 •An instinctive ability to work well with cattle.He is uneducated, but possesses a quality too many of our college boys lack, viz., “cowsense” and stable experience. — 1918 •Intelligence on the part of a cattle beast.The Longhorn cow remained to become the founder of an empire. She matched wits with the wilderness, met claw and fang with horns and cowsense. — 1975