Adjacent Words

Kine definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

KINE, plu. of cow. But cows, the regular plural, is now in general use.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

archaic plural of cow

Oxford Reference Dictionary

archaic pl. of COW(1).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. ``A herd of fifty or sixty kine.'' --Milton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.] 1. The mature female of bovine animals. 2. The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kin:

(1) 'alaphim, plural of 'eleph, "ox," or "cow," the American Standard Revised Version "cattle," the King James Version and the English Revised Version "kine" (De 7:13; 28:4,18,51);

(2) baqar, "ox" or "cow," the American Standard Revised Version "herd," the King James Version and the English Revised Version "kine" (De 32:14; 2Sa 17:29);

(3) paroth plural of parah, "young cow" or "heifer," the Revised Version (British and American) "kine" in Ge 41:2-27; 1Sa 6:7-14; Am 4:1; in Ge 32:15, the American Standard Revised Version has "cows."

See CATTLE; COW.

Moby Thesaurus

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