murrain
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈmʌɹɪn/
murrain
- (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.
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