Kine

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
kine
    n 1: 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}, {kine}, {oxen}, {Bos taurus}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
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
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]
    
from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Kine
(Heb. sing. parah, i.e., "fruitful"), mentioned in Pharaoh's
dream (Gen. 41: 18). Here the word denotes "buffaloes," which
fed on the reeds and sedge by the river's brink.
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "kine":
      Brahman, Indian buffalo, aurochs, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bison,
      bossy, bovine, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf,
      carabao, cattle, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dogie,
      heifer, hornless cow, leppy, maverick, milch cow, milcher,
      milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, neat, ox, oxen,
      steer, stirk, stot, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu

    

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