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Meaning of KINE

Pronunciation:  'kinee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 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
 
 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
 
 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.
 
Easton Bible Dictionary
 
 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.

 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 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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