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A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis. Crabb.

Shade or variety of character; kind; species. Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. Shak.

A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for food of cattle.

gons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.

ays its eggs in the nests of other birds; -- so called because frequently associated with cattle.

A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.

front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot. [U.S.]

A stall for oxen or other cattle. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Prov. xiv. 4.

To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Hence: A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind. Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler. Lord Dufferin.

A stall for cattle. [Obs.] I would rather have such . . . .in cubor kennel than in my closet or at my table. Landor.

oft grass (Pennisetum typhoideum) found in all tropical regions, used as food for men and cattle in Central Africa.

Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone.

To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal (1886).

To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture. [R.] Cattle, to graze and departure in his grounds. Blackstone. A right to cut wood upon or departure land. Washburn.

One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.

To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle. "Dishorn the spirit." Shak.

o diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle. They heighten distempers to diseases. Suckling.

for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.

Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn. Halliwell.