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murrain
[ mur-in ]
noun
- Veterinary Pathology. any of various diseases of cattle, as anthrax, foot-and-mouth disease, and Texas fever.
- Obsolete. a plague or pestilence.
murrain
/ ˈ³¾ÊŒ°ùɪ²Ô /
noun
- any plaguelike disease in cattle
- a plague
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of murrain1
Example Sentences
He explained that the MaullÃn flows on a glacial murrain so the trees float on the water in a dense mass.
The editorial added: “Otherwise nature is outraged, floods will again sweep the land and murrains strike our cattle. Or we could just stick with toast.â€
The hides of the oxen and the “wool pells†of the sheep, which had been killed for food or had fallen victim to that curse of medieval farming, the murrain, were by no means wasted.
Experiments with the result which I have stated have been made with the microbes of splenic fever, chicken cholera, murrain, and certain other maladies.
"What a murrain!" muttered Amos, scrambling back and running after him.
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