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A catarrh. [Obs.] Gascoigne.

An infectious and fatal disease among cattle. Bacon. A murrain on you, may you be afflicted with a pestilent disease. Shak.

A glucoside found in the flowers of a plant (Murraya exotica) of South Asia, and extracted as a white amorphous slightly bitter substance.

Any one of several species of sea birds of the genus Uria, or Catarractes; a guillemot.

oramphus and Brachyramphus, inhabiting the North Pacific. They are closely related to the murres.

A dark red color. -- a.

Made of the stone or material called by the Romans murrha; -- applied to certain costly vases of great beauty and delicacy used by the luxurious in Rome as wine cups; as, murrhine vases, cups, vessels. Murrhine glass, glassware made in imitation of murrhine vases and cups.

Infected with or killed by murrain. [Obs.] Shak.

See Muræna.

Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. [Scot.] Burns.

That may be demurred to. Stormonth.

ance made to the master or owner of the ship for such delay or detention. The claim for demurrage ceases as soon as the ship is cleared out and ready for sailing. M`Culloch.

Demur; delay in acting or deciding. The same causes of demurral existed which prevented British troops from assisting in the expulsion of the French from Rome. Southey.

or defense, and hence whether the party resting is bound to answer or proceed further. Demurrer to evidence, an exception taken by a party to the evidence offered by the opposite party, and an objecting to proceed further, on the allegation that such evidence is not sufficient in law to maintain the issue, and a refer…

A kind of murrain affecting cattle. Crabb.

Alca (or Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre.

ondon; cockneydom. People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called cockneys. Murray's Handbook of London.

to breast the storm or waves. The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. Wirt. To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.

A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank. J. A. H. Murray.

Demurrage. [Obs.] Pepys (1663).