| 释义 |
▪ I. hoose, hooze, n.|huːz|
[app. related to *hwós- root of OE. hwésan to wheeze, or to root of hoast cough.]
A parasitic bronchial disease of animals; = husk n.2 Cf. hoast.
a1722[see husk n.2]. 1797Downing Disord. Horned Cattle 15 The symptoms are a great difficulty in breathing, attended with a cough or hoose. 1828Craven Dial., Hoose, a difficulty of breathing in cattle. 1890Yorksh. Weekly Post 15 Nov. 4/1 Husk or Hoose in Calves, Lambs, Heifers, and Sheep. 1922Joyce Ulysses 309 A hoose drench for coughing calves. 1932Gaiger & Davis Vet. Path. & Bact. xxxii. 440 Parasites are a frequent cause of bronchitis in animals, particularly in cattle, sheep and swine. The condition is popularly known as ‘husk’ or ‘hoose’. 1960W. R. Wooldridge Farm Animals (ed. 2) vii. 299 Husk: Hoose: Parasitic Bronchitis. This disease is caused by a heavy infestation of lambs, up to one year of age, with the round worm, Dictyocaulus filaria. Adult sheep are fairly resistant to infection.
▪ II. hoose, hooze, v.
[Belongs to prec. n.]
intr. To cough or wheeze. Hence ˈhoosing vbl. n.
1846Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. VII. i. 204 In the early short⁓horns no hoosing or cough, no delicacy of constitution was known. 1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss., Hooze, to wheeze or breathe with difficulty and noise.
▪ III. hoose
obs. f. hose; Sc. f. house. |