"The _names_ given to cattle at their various ages are these:--A new-born animal of the ox-tribe is called a _calf_, a male being a _bull-calf_, a female a _quey-calf_, _heifer-calf_, or _cow-calf_; and a castrated male calf is a _stot-calf_, or simply a _calf_. Calf is applied to all young cattle until they attain one year old, when they are _year-olds_ or _yearlings_--_year-old bull_, _year-old quey_ or heifer, _year-old stot_. _Stot_, in some places, is a bull of any age. "In another year they are _2-year old bull_, _2-year-old quey_ or _heifer_, _2-year-old-stot_ or _steer_. In England females are _stirks_ from calves to 2-year-old, and males _steers_; in Scotland both young male and females are _stirks_. The next year they are _3-year-old bull_, in England 3-year-old female a _heifer_, in Scotland a _3-year-old quey_, and a male is a _3-year-old stot_ or _steer_. "When a quey bears a calf, it is a _cow_, both in Scotland and England. Next year the _bulls_ are _aged_; the _cows_ retain the name ever after, and the _stots_ or _steers_ are _oxen_, which they continue to be to any age. A cow or quey that has received the bull is _served_ or _bulled_, and is then _in calf_, and in that state these are in England _in-calvers_. A cow that suffers abortion _slips_ its calf. A cow that has either _missed_ being in calf, or has _slipped_ calf, is _eill_; and one that has gone dry of milk is a _yeld-cow_. A cow giving milk is a _milk_ or _milch-cow_. When two calves are born at one birth, they are _twins_; if three, _trins_. A quey calf of twins of bull and quey calves, is a _free martin_, and never produces young, but exhibits no marks of a hybrid or mule. "_Cattle_, _black cattle_, _horned cattle_, and _neat cattle_, are all generic names for the ox tribe, and the term _beast_ is a synonyme. "An ox without horns is _dodded_ or _humbled_. "A castrated bull is a _segg_. A quey-calf whose ovaries have been obliterated, to prevent her breeding, is a _spayed heifer_ or _quey_." Those of the horse are fewer, and more generally known--