单词 | moor-ill |
释义 | moor-illn. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern). Now historical. Disease seen in livestock (esp. cattle) grazing on moorland, or attributed to this; esp. (a) redwater (bovine babesiosis); (b) a (supposed) form of enteritis often accompanied by muscular stiffness and grunting respiration (cf. wood-evil n.). Cf. moor-evil n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or sheep > diarrhoea shiteOE skitc1440 wood-evil?1523 moor-ill1556 ray1577 shoot1587 scouring1597 moor-evil1611 scour1764 rush?1771 mu-sickness1809 washiness1844 teart1896 Johne's disease1906 paratuberculosis1913 teartness1940 1556 Haddington Burgh Rec. 29 Oct. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mure-, Muir-ill That na faltis flesch lyk lunsoucht, lowen ill, mure ill or mysell bakin be brow[ch]t to this merkett. a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Tullibardine) 313 in Poems (1910) 152 Þe mair, the migram, þe mureill, þe melt. 1692 A. Symson Large Descr. Galloway (1823) 78 In boggs, mosses and soft grounds, ros solis (the country people call it muirill-grass, and give it to their cattel to drink against the disease, call'd the muir-ill). 1798 R. Douglas Gen. View Agric. Roxburgh & Selkirk 150 Cattle..are seized frequently with a serious and alarming disease called the wood-ill, and sometimes the moor-ill. 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf x, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 200 Though he helped Lambside's cow weel out o' the moor-ill. 1837 Veterinarian 10 467 I saw fifty-two cases last year with the symptoms that are described in my first paper on moor-ill. 1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. V. 366 Pennyglen's Cross Well also enjoyed great reputation for the cure of cows ‘taken with mure-ill’. 1851 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 2) I. 520/2 The opinion in Forfarshire, where the disease is prevalent, that it arises from the cows eating some noxious plant, and is called the muir-ill, cannot be well founded. 1854 Amer. Farmer's New & Universal Hand-bk. 272 Black Water.—Also called Red Water, Brown Water,..Moor Ill, &c.—Symptoms—bloody urine, loss of appetite, languor, apathy, seclusion, constipation. 1913 E. W. Hoare Syst. Veterinary Med. I. 1005 It [sc. British redwater] is most common on low-lying rough pastures, such as moors (hence the name ‘moor-ill’) and on lands in the neighbourhood of woods. 1913 E. W. Hoare Syst. Veterinary Med. II. 416 Pseudo-Membranous Enteritis. Synonyms.—Croupous enteritis; Pantas; Wood-evil; Moor-ill. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 227/1 Moor-ill, mooral, muir-ill, merril, a type of dysentery in cattle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1556 |
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