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Any plaguelike disease of domestic animals
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murrain
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any plaguelike disease of domestic animals
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Murrain is an antiquated term for various infectious diseases affecting cattle and sheep . It literally means "death" and was used in medieval times to represent just that. Murrain did not refer to a specific disease, but was an umbrella term for what are ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) plague, infectious disease, pestilence. 2 (context now chiefly historical veterinary medicine English) Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle such as anthrax.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Murrain \Mur"rain\, a. Having, or afflicted with, murrain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"cattle plague," early 14c., from Anglo-French moryn , Old French moraine "pestilence" (12c.), probably from mourir "to die," from Latin mori (see mortal (adj.)).
Usage examples of murrain.
Because of the threat of murrain, the local oxherd would not bring his oxen for plowing, so they had to laboriously turn over the earth for the garden by hand.
On the first of May a convocation of Druids was held in the royal palace of the King of Connaught, and two fires were lit, between which cattle were driven, as a preventive of murrain and other pestilential disorders.
If there was any healing that would banish the murrain, it would have been found by now.
Three of the children had sores around their lips, although he had never heard of murrain striking people.
He believed in the murrain, and he feared that without his supervision the outbreak would spread.
No trace of the murrain had blighted the monastic herds, Rat-bold had told him last night, but the prior had spoken the words in the way a man relays information that his listener already knows.
Half-starved mud-scrabblers incapable of distinguishing dream from reality, ascribing crop-failure, blight and murrain to supernatural beings, imagining they could protect themselves by sacrificing most of what remained to themwhereupon, of course, weakness and fatigue allowed dreams to invade their minds ever further.
Some filthy plague spawned of the far south is rife in Forb, and a murrain is abroad among the livestock, and the very brave-trees are wilting!
I do know thee for that same gentle Motley did save me from Black Lewin--a murrain seize him!
If I cannot send disease into families, and murrain among the herds, can I attain the same end so well as by prolonging the lives of those who can serve the purpose of destruction as effectually?
I could almost wish it might either cure or kill me, for I am weary of lying here like an ox dying of the murrain, when tambours are beating, horses stamping, and trumpets sounding without.
Oxford, with a murrain on him, instead of lurching about here carrying tales and ogling the maidens?
London was burnt to the ground, a great murrain of cattle happened for the first time in the English nation, and a terrible plague carried off many thousands of the people.
Then they would scramble for the charred brands and bear them home to be charms against fever and lightning and the murrain until the next Midsummer Eve.
Whole villages, ruined by murrains, pests, fires, or raids of new immigrants, were often abandoned by their inhabitants, who went anywhere in search of new abodes.