Murrain

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various highly infectious diseases of cattle, as anthrax.
  • n. Obsolete A pestilence or dire disease.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Plague, infectious disease, pestilence.
  • n. Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle such as anthrax.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.
  • adj. Having, or afflicted with, murrain.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A disease affecting domestic animals, especially cattle; a cattle-plague or epizoötic disease of any kind; in a more limited sense, the same as foot-and-mouth disease (which see, under foot).
  • Affected with murrain.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague
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