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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
kine
    n 1: 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, kine, oxen, Bos taurus]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Kin \Kin\ (k[i^]n), n. Also Kine \Kine\ (k[imac]n). [Gr. kinei^n
   to move.] (Physics)
   The unit velocity in the C. G. S. system -- a velocity of one
   centimeter per second.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Kine \Kine\ (k[imac]n), n. pl. [For older kyen, formed like
   oxen, fr. AS. c[=y], itself pl. of c[=u] cow. See Cow, and
   cf. Kee, Kie.]
   Cows. "A herd of fifty or sixty kine." --Milton. Kinematic

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. The mature female of bovine animals.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals,
      etc.
      [1913 Webster]

5. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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.
   

Thesaurus Results for Kine:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Brahman, Indian buffalo, aurochs, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bison, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dogie, heifer, hornless cow, 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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