Meaning of KINE
Pronunciation: | | 'kinee
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WordNet Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | [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" |
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| Synonyms: | | Bos taurus, cattle, cows, oxen |
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| See Also: | | Africander, beef, beef cattle, boeuf, Bos, bovine, bull, bullock, calf, cow, dairy cattle, dairy cow, Devon, genus Bos, herd, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, moo-cow, ox, red poll, steer, stirk, Welsh, Welsh Black | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \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.
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Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | (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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| Related Terms: | | aurochs, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bison, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, Brahman, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dogie, heifer, hornless cow, Indian buffalo, leppy, maverick, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, neat, ox, oxen, steer, stirk, stot, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu |
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