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g an agreeable odor resembling that of attar of roses. -- Musk cat. See Bondar. -- Musk cattle (Zoöl.), musk oxen. See Musk ox (below). -- Musk deer (Zoöl.), a small hornless deer (Moschus moschiferus), which inhabits the elevated parts of Central Asia. The upper canine teeth of the male are developed into sharp tus…

Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot. Chaucer. Wherein the herds[men] were keeping of their neat. Spenser. The steer, the heifer, and the calf Are all called neat. Shak. A neat and a sheep of his own. Tusser. Neat's-foot,…

A person who has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd. Dryden.

A building for the shelter of neat cattle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Massinger.

A woman who takes care of cattle. [R.] Warner.

Neat cattle. [Prov. Eng.]

Neat cattle.

Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle. Cowell.

fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to overstock a market with goods, or a farm with cattle.

The gadfly of cattle.

The business of feeding or grazing cattle.

Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.

One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.

An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.

The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill.

A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold. Shak. A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Sir W. Scott.

Poundage of cattle. See Pound. [Obs.]

One who pins or impounds cattle. See Pin, v. t. [Obs.]

, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. "A plague upon the people fell." Tennyson. Cattle plague. See Rinderpest. -- Plague mark, Plague spot, a spot or mark of the plague; hence, a token of something incurable.

combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.