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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kine \Kine\ (k[imac]n), noun 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kin \Kin\ (k[i^]n), noun 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.0.44 [gcide]:
Cow \Cow\, noun; 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}.]
1. The mature female of bovine animals.
2. The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
kine
noun: 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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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.
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