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Webster 1913 Edition

Rinderpest

Rin′der-pest

(rĭn′dẽr-pĕst)

,

Noun.

[G., fr.

rind

, pl.

rinder

, cattle +

pest

pest, plague.]

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

.