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red-water
Also red water, redwater.
1. a. A disease in cattle and sheep, now recognized as of malarial affinities, and characterized by the presence of free hæmoglobin in the urine.
1594O. B. Quest. Profit. Concern. 12 b, Their cattell should rot and die of the murrion or read-water. 1644Quarles Sheph. Orac. i, In those past daies our Shepheards knew not what Red-water meant. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 245 The Rot, Red-water, and most of the Distempers that Sheep are subject to. 1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 29 Aug. an. 1774, Yesterday one of the Lancashire cows died of the red-water. 1834Youatt Cattle 161 It is said that the young Galloway cattle are more exposed than others to Redwater. 1879R. J. Atcherley Boërland 257 Some of the oxen showed symptoms of red water.
b. (See quot.)
1807Trans. Highl. Soc. III. 428 Redwater..consists in an inflammation of the skin, that raises it into blisters, which contain a thin, reddish, and watery fluid.
†2. (See quot.) Obs. rare—1.
1712J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northampt. 273, I now proceed to the Acidulæ, or the Medicinal Springs... A Spring of this Kind is here commonly known by the Name of the Red-Well, or the Red-Water, the Iron Water.
3. The poisonous red juice of the sassy-tree of West Africa (Erythrophlæum guineense), hence called red-water tree.
a1759N. Owen Jrnl. Slave-Dealer (1930) 30 If they are found out they are obliged to drink a large quantity of poyson, comonly caled red watter, which soon puts an end to thier days. 1830Loudon Hortus Brit. 168 Erythrophleum..Red Water Tree. 1878H. C. Lea Superst. & Force (ed. 3) 222 Throughout a wide region of Western Africa, one of the most popular forms of ordeal is that of the red water, or ‘sassy-bark’. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 338 Mancone of the Portuguese, Bourane, Red-water Tree, Ordeal Bark, &c.
4. A mass of water made red by pigmented plankton, esp. dinoflagellates.
1856Edin. New Philos. Jrnl. IV. 264 Alphonse Albuquerque..saw, from the stern of his vessel, issuing from the strait, and expanding outside, a stream of red water, which flowed towards Aden. 1902Amer. Naturalist XXXVI. 189 The ‘red water’ occurred for two hundred miles..along the coast, from the region of Santa Barbara to San Diego. 1933Science 7 July 13/1 Provocentrum is more frequently prominent in production of ‘red water’ than reports have indicated. 1948Jrnl. Marine Res. VII. 57 The presence of this [human respiratory] irritation was reported as associated with ‘red water’, dying fish and onshore winds. Ibid. 60 ‘Red water’ containing 56 × 106 dinoflagellates per liter. |