kine

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The true scientist may perhaps prefer that his kine should be the fat kine--for he is but human--but he does not desire them to be the only kine and to eat up all the rest But, though we are not to compare all the possibilities of this and that study, we can appeal to one unquestionable fact.

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  1. noun Archaic A plural of cow1.

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  1. Middle English kyn, from Old English cȳna, genitive pl. of , cow; see cow1.

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  1. See cow.
  2. Origin obscure.
  3. Also kin; from Greek κίν(ησις), motion. Compare dyne, from Greek δύν/(αμις), power.
 

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