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pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.

Of or pertaining to the deer, or to the family Cervidæ.

Of or pertaining to the crow; crowlike.

Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; -- called also curvinervate and curve-veined.

Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. "The immensity of the divine nature." Paley.

In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. Most divinely fair. Tennyson.

Divination. [Obs.]

The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak.

who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2.

A woman who divines. Dryden.

A yellow, crystalline, organic base, C13H12N2O, obtained artificially.

A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.

The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

A mineral of a yellowish color, consisting chiefly of silica, glucina, manganese, and iron, with a little sulphur.

A poisonous alkaloid resembling veratrine, and found with it in white hellebore (Veratrum album); -- called also jervina.

A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The wife of a landgrave.

Leafiness.[Obs.]

A swift hound.

A herbaceous climbing vine (Boussingaultia baselloides) very popular in cultivation, having shining entire leaves and racemes of small fragrant white flowers.