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1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings iv. 23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty small catell, and an hundreth shepe.

1701 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) II. 27 That there shall be no neat Cattle kill'd.

1725 Min. Book Soc. Antiq. 21 July (Brand) After the body [of a Highland chief] is interred, a hundred black cattle and two or three hundred sheep are killed for the entertainment of the company.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Cattle Black Cattle more particularly denotes the cow kind. These are also denominated neat cattle.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xlii. 555 Their sheep and horned cattle were large and numerous.

1803 J. Bristed Ανθρωπλανομενος II. 450 We now turned due west over the mountains, and..met some black-cattle drovers.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iv. 59 Green pastures, tenanted chiefly by herds of black cattle, then the staple commodity of the country.

1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 378/2 [Cattle] In the usual acceptation..is confined to the ox, or what is called black cattle or horned cattle. But as many varieties are not black, and several have no horns, the name neat cattle is more appropriate.

1864 D. G. Mitchell Wet Days at Edgewood 257 Known for his stock of neat cattle.

1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 209 The horned cattle, horses, and sheep are remarkably fine.