Hypertext Webster Gateway: "kine"
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.
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. ``A herd of fifty or sixty kine.'' --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[=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) 1.7 (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" [syn: {cattle}, {cows}, {oxen}, {Bos taurus}]
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