| 单词 | molten grease |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmolten grease molten grease n. Veterinary Medicine (now historical) a disorder of horses (supposedly) characterized by excretion of fat with the faeces. ΚΠ 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 40 It also purgeth the stomacke, and intralls of all molten grease.] 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Molten Grease, a Disease in Horses. 1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery xviii. 157 By molten-grease is meant a fat or oily discharge with the dung, and arises from a colliquation or melting down of the fat of the horse's body, by violent exercise in very hot weather. 1830 ‘J. Hinds’ Osmer's Treat. Horse (ed. 5) Index 265 Molten grease, how caused. 1853 H. Stephens Farmer's Guide I. 312/2 Fat horses, when unaccustomed to exercise, are liable to molten grease. 1924 F. Smith Early Hist. Vet. Lit. II. 74 He [sc. Bartlet] goes back to the ‘molten grease’ of the dark ages. < as lemmas |
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