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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Water Crowfoot :: Water crowfoot () An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England..
Show :: Show (n.) That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show..
Bestial :: Bestial (n.) A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial..
Hook :: Hook (v. t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore..
Agistment :: Agistment (n.) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.
Warble :: Warble (n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles..
Pasture :: Pasture (n.) Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
Stallation :: Stallage (n.) Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw..
Stampede :: Stampede (v. i.) To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies..
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..
Breachy :: Breachy (a.) Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle..
Stowed :: Stover (n.) Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay..
Graze :: Graze (v. t.) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for..
Casings :: Casings (n. pl.) Dried dung of cattle used as fuel.
Head :: Head (n.) Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle..
Redtop :: Redtop (n.) A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides..
Zobo :: Zobo (n.) A kind of domestic cattle reared in Asia for its flesh and milk. It is supposed to be a hybrid between the zebu and the yak.
Murrain :: Murrain (n.) An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.
Levant :: Levant (a.) Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant..
Charbon :: Charbon (n.) A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule..
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