cattle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun plural Any of various domesticated ruminant mammals of the genus Bos, including cows, steers, bulls, and oxen, often raised for meat and dairy products.
• noun plural Any of various similar wild or domesticated bovine mammals, such as the anoa or the gaur.
• noun plural Humans, especially when viewed contemptuously or as a mob.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Property; goods; chattels; stock: in this sense now only in the form chattel (which see).
• Live stock; domestic quadrupeds which serve for tillage or other labor, or as food for man.
• Human beings: in contempt or ridicule.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun plural Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
• noun plural See under Belted, Black.
• noun plural a trench under a railroad track and alongside a crossing (as of a public highway). It is intended to prevent cattle from getting upon the track.
• noun plural (Zoöl.) any species of louse infecting cattle. There are several species. The Hæmatatopinus eurysternus and Hæmatatopinus vituli are common species which suck blood; Trichodectes scalaris eats the hair.
• noun plural the rinderpest; called also Russian cattle plague.
• noun plural [U. S.] an open space through which cattle may run or range.
• noun plural an exhibition of domestic animals with prizes for the encouragement of stock breeding; -- usually accompanied with the exhibition of other agricultural and domestic products and of implements.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).
• noun Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.
• noun pejorative, figuratively People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
• noun obsolete, English law, sometimes countable chattel
• noun uncountable, rare Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age