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7 words match “MURRAIN”

MURRAIN n. 2 definitions
An infectious and fatal disease among cattle. Bacon. A murrain on you, may you be afflicted with a pestilent disease. Shak.
WATER MURRAIN n.
A kind of murrain affecting cattle. Crabb.
EPIZOOTY; EPIZOOETY; EPIZOOTIC; EPIZOOETIC n.
An epizoötic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.
MURRION a.
Infected with or killed by murrain. [Obs.] Shak.
RINDERPEST n.
A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.
ROT n.
parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2. His cattle must of rot and murrain die. Milton. Bitter rot (Bot.), a disease of apples, caused by the fungus Glæosporium fructigenum. F. L. Scribner. -- Black rot (Bot.), a disease of grapevines, attacking the leaves and fruit, caused by the fungus Læstadi…
STEPPE n.
rom wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna. Steppe murrain. (Far.) See Rinderpest.