archaic pl. of COW sb.1 (see 1 b β); occas. attrib. or in Comb., as kine-killing, -pox.
1800. B. Waterhouse (title), A Prospect of Exterminating the Small-Pox; being the History of the … Kine-Pox, commonly called the Cow-Pox.
1894. Daily News, 23 April, 3/5. The kine-killing practice of the Mohammedans at their festivals.
