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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various chiefly domesticated mammals of the genus Bos, including cows, steers, bulls, and oxen, often raised for meat and dairy products.
  2. n. Humans, especially when viewed contemptuously or as a mob.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Property; goods; chattels; stock: in this sense now only in the form chattel (which see).
  2. Live stock; domestic quadrupeds which serve for tillage or other labor, or as food for man. The term may include horses, asses, camels, all the varieties of domesticated beasts of the bovine genus, sheep of all kinds, goats, and even swine. In this general sense it is used in the Scriptures. In common use, however, the word is restricted to domestic beasts of the cow kind. In the language of the stable it means horses.
  3. Human beings: in contempt or ridicule.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).
  2. n. Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.
  3. n. pejorative, figuratively People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
  4. n. obsolete, English law, sometimes countable chattel
  5. n. uncountable, rare Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English catel, from Anglo-Norman catel ("personal property"), from Old Northern French (compare French cheptel, Old French chetel, chatel, also English chattel) from Medieval Latin capitale, from Latin capitalis ("of the head"), from caput 'head' + -alis '-al'. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English catel, property, livestock, from Old North French, from Old Provençal capdal, from Medieval Latin capitāle, holdings, funds, from neuter of Latin capitālis, principal, original, from caput, head; see kaput- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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