a collective word, which signifies the four-footed animals, which serve either for tilling the ground, or for food to man. They are distinguished into large or black cattle, and into small cattle: of the former are horses, bulls, oxen, cows, and even calves and heifers: amongst the latter are rams, ewes, sheep, lambs, goats, kids, &c. Cattle are the chief stock of a farm: they who deal in cattle are styled graziers.