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

volving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

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

lk, 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.

wels of the earth. His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the battle. Shak.

fining 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.

Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.

with the braver grace. Shak. For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. In silks I'll rattle it of every color. Robert Greene. Frog and lizard in holiday coats And turtle brave in his golden spots. Emerson.

To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise. Heard ye the din of battle bray Gray.

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.

An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.

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.

olence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

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.