kine

1. archaicdialectalpluralplural of cow

   Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts.

   1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 40

plural kines

1. obsoletenatural sciencesA proposed unit of velocity in the CGS system, equal to one centimeter per second.

   In what respect is the expression “a velocity of one kine,” better than “a velocity of one centimetre per second;”

   1888, The Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, volume 23, number 566, page 330

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   It may be well to note that a mile per hour is equal to 44.7 kines, and that accordingly a sharp walking pace may attain 200 kines […]

   1890, E/MJ, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 50, page 169

   The Committee on Mechanical Nomenclature suggest the usage of the term Kine, Bole, and Barad thus:– 1 cm. per sec. = 1 kine.

   1888, The Electrical Engineer, volume 2, page 223

plural kines

1. abbreviationclippingbroadcastingClipping of kinescope (“type of recording”).

plural kines

1. human sciencesIn kinesics, any of the individual movements composing a kineme.

plural Kines

1. A surname.