Hōōve or Hōv'en1, n.
n. [Allied to heave, hove.] A disease in cattle consisting in the excessive inflation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food. Gardner.
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n. [Allied to heave, hove.] A disease in cattle consisting in the excessive inflation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food. Gardner.
a. Affected with the disease called hoove or hoven; as, hooven cattle.
(hōv'n), a. Swelled or puffed out;—applied mostly to cattle when distended with gas from eating too much green food.
p. p. of heave.