kine

«kine» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: cows — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

cows

part of speech

noun, plural only

meaning for a pupil

Cows, or cattle. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "cows". "Kine" is the old plural of cow.

examples

• And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine. (Torah GEN.41.20, JPS 1917) tree →
• You ain't had de kine w'at kotch me on de underjaw. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) tree →
• And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine. (Torah GEN.41.4, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

kine

tests

manual 6; corpora 24 (Torah 17, tales 7, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.7 (Torah alone 39.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• (32-16) thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals.
• And the ill-favoured and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat kine.
• And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine.
• The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «kine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.