) kine. | 1. | the mature female of a bovine animal, esp. of the genus Bos. |
| 2. | the female of various other large animals, as the elephant or whale. |
| 3. | Informal. a domestic bovine of either sex and any age. |
| 4. | Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a large, obese, and slovenly woman. |
| 5. | Offensive. a woman who has a large number of children or is frequently pregnant. |
| 6. | till or until the cows come home, for a long time; forever: You can keep arguing till the cows come home, but I won't change my mind. |
noun, verb, -scoped, -scop⋅ing. Television.| 1. | Also, kine. a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons. |
| 2. | the motion-picture record of a television program. |
| 3. | to record (a program) on motion-picture film, using a kinescope. |

kine (kīn) n. Archaic A plural of cow1. [Middle English kyn, from Old English cȳna, genitive pl. of cū, cow; see cow1.] |
Kine
(Heb. sing. parah, i.e., "fruitful"), mentioned in Pharaoh's dream (Gen. 41: 18). Here the word denotes "buffaloes," which fed on the reeds and sedge by the river's brink.