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urnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn. The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip. Coleridge. Horned bee (Zoöl.), a British wild bee (Osmia bicornis), having two little horns on the head. -- Horned dace (Zoö…

ing; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle. At length have housed me in a humble shed. Young. House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse. Evelyn.

An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. Brande & C.

Affected with the disease called hoove; as, hoven cattle.

, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd. The cattle huddled on the lea. Tennyson. Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of panic- struck deer. Prescott.

r withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.

A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.

inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping. But taken and impounded as a stray, The king of Scots. Shak.

To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc.

One of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk.

Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping. The work of many hands, which earns my keeping. Milton.

Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide.

The cattle of the Hebrides, or of the Highlands. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

pe made of hemp or strips of hide, esp. one with a noose; -- used as a lasso for catching cattle, horses, etc., and for picketing a horse so that he can graze without wandering. [Mexico & Western U.S.]

A rope or long thong of leather with, a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc. Lasso cell (Zoöl.), one of a peculiar kind of defensive and offensive stinging cells, found in great numbers in all coelenterates, and in a few animals of other groups. They are most highly developed in the tentacles of jellyf…

A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged. [Obs.]

destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.

Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.

To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.

To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall. Tell them how they litter their jades. Bp. Hacke For his ease, well littered was the floor. Dryden.