| 单词 | blind staggers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblind staggers blind staggers n. (see stagger n.1 2). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > staggers or gid turn?1523 sturdiness1552 turn-sick1566 sturdy1570 dazy1577 stavers1597 (to have) the staggers1599 gid1601 giddy1603 turnabout1605 stacker1610 turning-evil1614 megrims1639 blind staggers1784 the goggles1793 dazing1799 stomach-staggers1831 turn-sick1834 turn-side1845 phalaris staggers1946 1784 J. Lewis Diary 4 Mar. in Proc. New Jersey Hist. Soc. (1941) LIX. 169 We discovered that my horse had a distemper called the blind staggers. 1839 H. Colman 2nd Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 75 Having no exercise, it tends to produce the blind staggers. 1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 341 The disease is frequently called ‘blind staggers’. blind staggers a. plural (construed as singular). Used as a name for various diseases affecting domestic animals, of which a staggering gait is a symptom. Also with various defining words, indicating the characteristics or the supposed cause of the disease, e.g. blind staggers, grass staggers, mad staggers, sleepy staggers, stomach staggers. Cf. staver n.3The staggers in sheep is caused by the presence of a hydatid (Cœnurus, the larva of a tapeworm) in the brain. ΚΠ 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 134 If he [sc. a bullock] haue the Staggers, he wyl looke very red about the eyes. 1596 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Hogges 277 For the staggars in a hog. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer viii. 820 Some sheep..get the staggers; some the scab. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 18 Aug. (1974) VIII. 390 One of our coach-horses fell sick of the staggers, so as he was ready to fall down. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 413 The long-legged hogs, as it were double-jointed at the knee, are of a breed subject to the staggers. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 279 A sort of Frenzy, resembling the Mad-Staggers. 1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery ix. 77 Farriers generally include all distempers of the head under two general denominations, viz. Staggers and Convulsions. 1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) vi. 113 The attack is usually sudden—the horse is dull, lethargic, and almost as comatose as in stomach-staggers. 1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician II. i. xv. 72 Three of them [horses] were seized with the staggers, and..fell down dead. 1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 130/2 Inflammation of the brain, phrensy, mad staggers or sough (phrenitis), and apoplexy. 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 41 A correspondent in the London Agricultural Gazette..admits, that,..he had ‘never brought up but two to be a'most hens’, and that they took the megrims (staggers,) and died. 1858 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 3) ii. iii. 441 If a lamb is the subject of a feeding experiment with Tænia serrata..within a fortnight symptoms of a disease known as ‘staggers’ are manifested. 1860 E. Mayhew Illustr. Horse Doctor 7 Sleepy staggers. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 41 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Blind staggers has been somewhat fatal in the south and west. 1883 W. Robertson Textbk. Pract. Equine Med. 382 Grass staggers. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1106 The allied organism Cœnurus, which produces the ‘gid’ or ‘staggers’. < as lemmas |
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