KINE

cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus

(noun) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

kine

(archaic or dialectal) plural of cow

Etymology 2

Noun

kine (plural kines)

(physics) The unit velocity in the CGS system, equal to one centimeter per second.

Anagrams

• Enki, Nike, inke

Source: Wiktionary


Kine, n. pl. Etym: [For older kyen, formed like oxen, fr. AS. c, itself pl. of c cow. See Cow, and cf. Kee, Kie.]

Definition: Cows. "A herd of fifty or sixty kine." Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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