dictionary definitions for "kine"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  kine
      n : domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or
          age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come
          home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team
          of oxen" [syn: cattle, cows, oxen, Bos taurus]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kin \Kin\ (k[i^]n), n. Also Kine \Kine\ (k[imac]n). [Gr. kinei^n
     to move.] (Physics)
     The unit velocity in the C. G. S. system -- a velocity of one
     centimeter per second.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kine \Kine\ (k[imac]n), n. pl. [For older kyen, formed like
     oxen, fr. AS. c[=y], itself pl. of c[=u] cow. See Cow, and
     cf. Kee, Kie.]
     Cows. "A herd of fifty or sixty kine." --Milton. Kinematic

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cow \Cow\, n.; pl. Cows (kouz); old pl. Kine (k[imac]n).
     [OE. cu, cou, AS. c[=u]; akin to D. koe, G. kuh, OHG. kuo,
     Icel. k[=y]r, Dan. & Sw. ko, L. bos ox, cow, Gr. boy^s, Skr.
     g[=o]. [root]223. Cf. Beef, Bovine, Bucolic, Butter,
     Nylghau.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. The mature female of bovine animals.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals,
        etc.
        [1913 Webster]


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