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Webster 1913 Edition
Murrain
Mur′rain
,Noun.
[OE.
moreine
, OF. morine
, fr. OF. morir
, murir
, 8die, L. mori
, moriri
.] (Far.)
An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.
Bacon.
A murrain on you
, may you be afflicted with a pestilent disease.
Shak.
Mur′rain
,Adj.
Having, or afflicted with, murrain.
Webster 1828 Edition
Murrain
MURRAIN
,Noun.
An infectious and fatal disease among cattle. Ex.9.
Definition 2024
murrain
murrain
English
Noun
murrain (plural murrains)
- (archaic) Plague, infectious disease, pestilence.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
- For heauen it selfe shall their successe enuy, / And them with plagues and murrins pestilent / Consume, till all their warlike puissaunce be spent.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
- (now chiefly historical, veterinary medicine) Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle such as anthrax.