taint-wormn.
archaic.
A worm or crawling larva supposed to taint or infect cattle, etc.: cf. taint n.1 7.
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1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 62v Doo taynte wormes good, that lurke wher oxe should eate?
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 21 in Justa Edouardo King As killing as the canker to the rose, Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze.
1840 R. Browning Sordello vi. 158 Study the corpse-face thro' the taint-worms' scurf.
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