murrainedadj.
/ˈmʌrᵻnd/, /ˈmʌrn̩d/, /ˈmʌreɪnd/, U.S. /ˈmərənd/ Chiefly literary.
Of cattle, sheep, etc.: infected with murrain.
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murrained1819
1819 P. B. Shelley Similes in Athenaeum (1832) 25 Aug. 554/2 Two crows perched on the murrained cattle.
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son III. xii. 85 The Europeans..died like murrained sheep.
1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags II. vi. 160 The men die like murrained sheep in the hospital, and get sour bread tossed to them as if they were pigs.
1924 Times 1 Jan. 7/1 Tangled politics, stagnant trade, depressed incomes, murrained flocks and herds—it is easy to be grumpy and show it.
1953 M. Peake Mr. Pye xxiv. 194 Day trippers..were the lowest type of animal life. Tintagieu and Thorpe..watched them as though they were witnessing the disembarkation of thrice murrained cattle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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