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take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.

A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. Crabb.

Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

ilk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.

nfining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. A horse . . . which Philip had bought . . . and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars. J. Brende.

Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.

A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede.

The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food. Spenser. Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed. Dryden.

n African bird of the genus Buphaga, of two species. These birds perch upon buffaloes and cattle, in search of parasites. -- Buffalo bug, the carpet beetle. See under Carpet. -- Buffalo chips, dry dung of the buffalo, or bison, used for fuel. [U.S.] -- Buffalo clover (Bot.), a kind of clover (Trifolium reflexum and T…

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidæ); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and breeze flies.

The botfly or gadfly of cattle (Hypoderma bovis). See Gadfly.

ance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes. -- To have one's cake dough, to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected. Shak.

ment of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.

to lead or guide. Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet. Shak. He carried away all his cattle. Gen. xxxi. 18. Passion and revenge will carry them too far. Locke.

Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Waterland.

Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it. In this way chaff is very useful. Ywatt.

A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.