kine

6 definitions found

kine - 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.]

  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

  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]

kine - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

kine - 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.

kine - 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