Kine : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Kine	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Kine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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" Synonym(s): cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kine \Kine\, n. pl. [For older kyen, formed like oxen, fr. AS. c[?], itself pl. of c[?] cow. See {Cow}, and cf. {Kee}, {Kie}.] Cows. [bd]A herd of fifty or sixty kine.[b8] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Kin \Kin\, n. Also Kine \Kine\ [Gr. [?] to move.] (Physics) The unit velocity in the C.G.S. system -- a velocity of one centimeter per second.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cow \Cow\, n.; pl. {Cows} (kouz); old pl. {Kine} (k[imac]n). [OE. cu, cou, AS. c[umac]; akin to D. koe, G. kuh, OHG. kuo, Icel. k[ymac]r, Dan. & Sw. ko, L. bos ox, cow, Gr. boy^s, Skr. g[omac]. [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 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.