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To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle. Hudibras.

A stable; a place for cattle. At last he found a stall where oxen stood. Dryden.

Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw. [Obs.]

To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.

A vertical bar for confining cattle in a stall.

The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.

A partial inclosure made by a wall or trees, to serve as a shelter for sheep or cattle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.

Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay. Where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep. Shak. Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require, Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire. Tusser.

A disease in sheep and cattle, marked by great nervousness, or by dullness and stupor.

To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.

To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat. "Sweltered cattle." Coleridge.

e showers are commonly taken with sickness. Bacon. There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine yield blood. Shak.

Dung, or droppings of cattle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.

A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with cresol.

rth. Piers Plowman. It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm to tug them out of the slough. Macaulay.

A breed of cattle formerly bred in England, but supposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived.