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e to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2. His cattle must of rot and murrain die. Milton. Bitter rot (Bot.), a disease of apples, caused by the fungus Glæosporium fructigenum. F. L. Scribner. -- Black rot (Bot.), a disease of grapevines, attacking the leaves and fruit, cause…

A bovine beast. [Obs.] Shak. Rother beasts, cattle of the bovine genus; black cattle. [Obs.] Golding. -- Rother soil, the dung of rother beasts.

or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall. Totten. (b) To collect together (cattle) by riding around them, as on cattle ranches. [Western U.S.]

The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. [Western U.S.]

A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle. Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. Mortimer.

ing four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies.

To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. "Cattle free to ruminate." Wordsworth.

Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.

erve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.

Diarrhoea or dysentery among cattle.

so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior.

To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. Ex. ix. 4. They claimed the right of severing in their challenge. Macaulay.

ight of persons occupying lands lying together in the same common field to turn out their cattle to range in it after harvest. Cowell.

One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.

The refuse of cattle taken from a drove. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

w; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show. As for triumphs, masks, feasts, and such shows. Bacon.

The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.

To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.

common house files, which they resemble, bite severely, and are troublesome to horses and cattle.

The act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable.