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5 definitions found 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 1.6 [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}] 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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