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
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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