单词 | warnel |
释义 | warneln. Now dialect. 1. a. A hard tumour on the back of cattle, produced by the larva of a gadfly: = warble n.2 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > tumour warnelc1000 waribreed?1523 warblea1585 leek1688 ox-spavin1728 pickeridge1882 warble-lump1886 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 28 Þa lærde hi sum iudeisc man, þæt heo name ænne wernægel of sumes oxan hricge [etc.]. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 838 Warbles or wommals, that is, small swelled protuberances along the chine, caused by the larvæ of the Œstrus bovis or cattle-bot. 1852 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New Eng. (ed. 2) 500 Large open boils, some~times called wornils or wurmals, that is, worm-holes. 1864–5 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands (1868) xxvi. 512 The swellings caused by the Breeze Fly are called Wurbles or Wornils. b. The maggot producing tumours of this kind: = warble n.2 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Oestridae > genus Oestrum or Oestrus > oestrus bovis (ox-fly) > larva of warnel1674 ox-bot1841 1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland xxviii. 132 About March worms or wornels do begin to breed in their backs. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. viii. vi. 418 In the Backs of Cows..there are Maggots generated, which in Essex we call Wornils: which are first only a small Knot in the Skin. c. In combinations. ΚΠ 1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Warnel-worms, certain Worms that stick within the Skin of Cattel on their Backs. Whence in later Dicts. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > hardening or thickening > hard skin > corn agnaileOE cornc1440 werrock?a1513 wrang-nail?c1530 core1532 crest1569 pin1611 warnel1611 clavus1807 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Frouelle, An agnell, pinne, or warnell in the toe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1000 |
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