Definition of cattle

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Cattle (n. pl.) Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine..

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Jersey :: Jersey (n.) One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk.
Cowcatxjer :: Cowcatxjer (n.) A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot..
Fog :: Fog (v. t.) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from..
Polled :: Polled (a.) Deprived of a poll, or of something belonging to the poll. Specifically: (a) Lopped; -- said of trees having their tops cut off. (b) Cropped; hence, bald; -- said of a person. The polled bachelor. Beau. & Fl. (c) Having cast the antlers; -- said of a stag. (d) Without horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep..
Cattle :: Cattle (n. pl.) Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine..
Horn :: Horn (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle..
Booly :: Booly (n.) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers..
Forage :: Forage (n.) Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats..
Corncutter :: Corncutter (n.) A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.
Tath :: Tath (n.) Dung, or droppings of cattle..
Agistor :: Agistor (n.) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer..
Dryfland :: Dryfland (n.) An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets..
Manger :: Manger (n.) A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.
Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle..
Hook :: Hook (n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
Kipskin :: Kipskin (n.) Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide..
Moolley :: Moolley (a.) Destitute of horns, although belonging to a species of animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle; a mulley (or moolley) cow..
Browse :: Browse (v. i.) To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer..
Lungworm :: Lungworm (n.) Any one of several species of parasitic nematoid worms which infest the lungs and air passages of cattle, sheep, and other animals, often proving fatal. The lungworm of cattle (Strongylus micrurus) and that of sheep (S. filaria) are the best known..
Cowboy :: Cowboy (n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States..
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