water sicknessn.

Brit.

/ˈwɔːtə ˌsɪknᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈwɔdər ˌsɪknᵻs/,

/ˈwɑdər ˌsɪknᵻs/

Forms: see water n. and sickness n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., sickness n.

Etymology: < water n. + sickness n., in sense 1 after water-sick adj. With sense 1 compare (with a related second element: see sought n.) Middle Dutch watersucht (Dutch waterzucht), Middle Low German watersucht, Old High German wazzarsuht (Middle High German wazzersuht, German Wassersucht), Old Icelandic vatnsótt, Old Swedish vatnsot (Swedish vattensot), Old Danish vantsot (Danish vandsot).

Now historical and rare.

1. Dropsy.In quot. 1555 figurative.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > excess fluid in tissue > dropsy

water sicknessOE

dropsyc1290

hydropsyc1380

hyposarca1398

hydropsc1480

water spring1525

leucophlegmacy1657

litherness1727

hydrothorax1793

hydrometra1811

humectation1886

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) v. 221 Wæterseocnys hine ofereode beneoþon ðam gyrdle, to þam swiðe þæt his gesceapu maðan weollon.

OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) xliii. 88 Wið wæterseocnysse [?a1200 Harl. 6258B Wyð wæterseocnesse; L. Ad ydropicam] genim þas wyrte þe man bulbiscillitici & oðrum naman glædene nemneð.

1555 W. Turner New Bk. Spirituall Physik f. 53^v So is it also in the spirituall water syknes, the golde and the syluer, the landes, the houses, the fermes, the shepe & the bullockes, oft tymes do nether the couetous men them selues any good at length, nether theyr chylder.

1908 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Apr. 999/2 For water sickness (dropsy), or stones in the bladder, the cure was elder.

a2004 D. C. Watts Dict. Plant Lore (2007) 272/2 Earlier still, in the Anglo-Saxon version of Dioscorides, there is a leechdom for ‘water sickness’ using elder.

2. Chiefly Scottish. Any disease of sheep characterized by the presence of ascites, other effusion, or oedema; spec. braxy.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep

pocka1325

soughta1400

pox1530

mad1573

winter rot1577

snuffa1585

leaf1587

leaf-sickness1614

redwater1614

mentigo1706

tag1736

white water1743

hog pox1749

rickets1755

side-ill1776

resp1789

sheep-fag1789

thorter-ill1791

vanquish1792

smallpox1793

shell-sicknessc1794

sickness1794

grass-ill1795

rub1800

pine1804

pining1804

sheep-pock1804

stinking ill1807

water sickness1807

core1818

wryneck1819

tag-belt1826

tag-sore1828

kibe1830

agalaxia1894

agalactia1897

lupinosis1899

trembling1902

struck1903

black disease1906

scrapie1910

renguerra1917

pulpy kidney1927

dopiness1932

blowfly strike1933

body strike1934

sleepy sickness1937

swayback1938

twin lamb disease1945

tick pyaemia1946

fly-strike1950

maedi1952

nematodiriasis1957

visna1957

maedi-visna1972

visna-maedi1972

1807 Prize Ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 3 363 When..there is a remarkable effusion of bloody serum into the cavity of the belly, it has been called the water-sickness.

1809 A. Edmondston View Zetland Islands II. 223 Water sickness, or general dropsy, also frequently takes place among sheep.

1840 Farmer's Mag. 1 276/1 Dropsy, or Water-sickness, is a disease very generally known to shepherds.

1915 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 27 59 Species 4 [of bowel sickness] consists of those cases where on opening the belly the whole bowels are found swimming in bloody water—‘water sickness’.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	water sickness
释义	water sicknessn. Brit. /ˈwɔːtə ˌsɪknᵻs/, U.S. /ˈwɔdər ˌsɪknᵻs/, /ˈwɑdər ˌsɪknᵻs/ Forms: see water n. and sickness n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., sickness n. Etymology: < water n. + sickness n., in sense 1 after water-sick adj. With sense 1 compare (with a related second element: see sought n.) Middle Dutch watersucht (Dutch waterzucht), Middle Low German watersucht, Old High German wazzarsuht (Middle High German wazzersuht, German Wassersucht), Old Icelandic vatnsótt, Old Swedish vatnsot (Swedish vattensot), Old Danish vantsot (Danish vandsot). Now historical and rare. 1. Dropsy.In quot. 1555 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > excess fluid in tissue > dropsy water sicknessOE dropsyc1290 hydropsyc1380 hyposarca1398 hydropsc1480 water spring1525 leucophlegmacy1657 litherness1727 hydrothorax1793 hydrometra1811 humectation1886 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) v. 221 Wæterseocnys hine ofereode beneoþon ðam gyrdle, to þam swiðe þæt his gesceapu maðan weollon. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) xliii. 88 Wið wæterseocnysse [?a1200 Harl. 6258B Wyð wæterseocnesse; L. Ad ydropicam] genim þas wyrte þe man bulbiscillitici & oðrum naman glædene nemneð. 1555 W. Turner New Bk. Spirituall Physik f. 53^v So is it also in the spirituall water syknes, the golde and the syluer, the landes, the houses, the fermes, the shepe & the bullockes, oft tymes do nether the couetous men them selues any good at length, nether theyr chylder. 1908 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 25 Apr. 999/2 For water sickness (dropsy), or stones in the bladder, the cure was elder. a2004 D. C. Watts Dict. Plant Lore (2007) 272/2 Earlier still, in the Anglo-Saxon version of Dioscorides, there is a leechdom for ‘water sickness’ using elder. 2. Chiefly Scottish. Any disease of sheep characterized by the presence of ascites, other effusion, or oedema; spec. braxy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep pocka1325 soughta1400 pox1530 mad1573 winter rot1577 snuffa1585 leaf1587 leaf-sickness1614 redwater1614 mentigo1706 tag1736 white water1743 hog pox1749 rickets1755 side-ill1776 resp1789 sheep-fag1789 thorter-ill1791 vanquish1792 smallpox1793 shell-sicknessc1794 sickness1794 grass-ill1795 rub1800 pine1804 pining1804 sheep-pock1804 stinking ill1807 water sickness1807 core1818 wryneck1819 tag-belt1826 tag-sore1828 kibe1830 agalaxia1894 agalactia1897 lupinosis1899 trembling1902 struck1903 black disease1906 scrapie1910 renguerra1917 pulpy kidney1927 dopiness1932 blowfly strike1933 body strike1934 sleepy sickness1937 swayback1938 twin lamb disease1945 tick pyaemia1946 fly-strike1950 maedi1952 nematodiriasis1957 visna1957 maedi-visna1972 visna-maedi1972 1807 Prize Ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 3 363 When..there is a remarkable effusion of bloody serum into the cavity of the belly, it has been called the water-sickness. 1809 A. Edmondston View Zetland Islands II. 223 Water sickness, or general dropsy, also frequently takes place among sheep. 1840 Farmer's Mag. 1 276/1 Dropsy, or Water-sickness, is a disease very generally known to shepherds. 1915 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 27 59 Species 4 [of bowel sickness] consists of those cases where on opening the belly the whole bowels are found swimming in bloody water—‘water sickness’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.OE
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