= pox, n. 1c. In singular, chiefly regional. Also in plural with singular agreement. Obsolete.

Sickness, illness, disease. In later use spec. a disease of sheep or other animals.

Any of various diseases of domestic animals, esp. sheep, characterized by sores or scabs on the skin.

A maggot or grub; esp. the larva of a blowfly, which causes a disease (cutaneous myiasis) in sheep. Also in plural: the disease caused by the…

A disease affecting sheep in the winter. Cf. rot, n.1 3b. Obsolete. rare.

A persistent snuffling; a disease in sheep.

A disease of sheep attributed to the ingestion of oak or hawthorn leaves; = leaf-sickness n. at compounds 2. Obsolete.

a disease of sheep or (rarely) cattle attributed to the ingestion of oak or hawthorn leaves (perhaps the parasitic disease gid, or tetanus).

Any of several diseases or disorders of sheep; esp. (a) haemoglobinuria or haematuria from various causes; (b) a disease, probably braxy, in which…

A disease causing sores and scabs around the lips and mouth of sheep; (perhaps) contagious ecthyma (orf).

A disease in sheep; = tag-sore n. at compounds 2: see quots.

The disease braxy (in sheep); (also) serous ascitic fluid resulting from this. Cf. redwater, n. 1b(b). Now rare.

swinepox; (also) a disease in humans or sheep resembling swinepox or smallpox.

Chiefly English regional. A disease in domestic animals causing unsteadiness and irregularity of gait; esp. scrapie in sheep. Now historical.

a disease of sheep and cattle, probably blackleg (blackleg, n. 1a); cf. quarter ill, n.

Usually with the. A disease of sheep caused by Brassica poisoning, characterized by the accumulation of a bloody fluid in the body. Cf. redwater, n.…

(see fag, n.1).

A disease of sheep, characterized by distortion of the neck; louping-ill.

(See quots.)

Medicine. Chiefly with distinguishing word: = sheep-pox n. at sheep, n. compounds 2. Now historical and rare.

a disease in sheep characterized by shell-like thickenings in the intestines.

A disease in sheep; braxy.

disease causing the sudden death of lambs and young sheep (probably mainly braxy and other clostridial diseases, or louping ill).

British regional. With the. Frequently in plural = rubbers, n. Now historical.

Chiefly British regional. A wasting disease of sheep and cattle characterized by loss of appetite, wasting, and anaemia, caused by cobalt deficiency…

Chiefly British regional. = pine, n.1 5.

a disease of sheep.

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

A disease of sheep, or a tumour characteristic of the disease. Also a disease in pigeons.

(See quot.) rare.

= tag-sore n.

pustular excoriation of a sheep's tail set up by the irritation of diarrhoeal flux.

transferred. A breaking out at the top of the hoof in sheep. (So Welsh cibi.)

More fully contagious agalaxia. = agalactia, n. 2.

More fully contagious agalactia, infectious agalactia. An infectious disease of goats and sheep caused by Mycoplasma agalactiae and characterized…

Poisoning of animals, esp. sheep, after ingestion of lupines, either that caused by the presence of lupine alkaloids in the lupines, or (and now…

The action of tremble, v. in various senses; in quot. 1902, spec. ague in sheep (see tremble, n. 2).

A bacterial disease of sheep causing sudden convulsive death after few symptoms; originally more loosely in dialect use.

= infectious necrotic hepatitis n. at infectious, adj. compounds.

A subacute, invariably fatal, disease of sheep and goats, characterized by degeneration of the central nervous system, leading to uncoordinated…

A disorder of lambs characterized by incoordination of movement and muscular weakness or paralysis, and caused by copper deficiency during fetal…

(more fully pulpy kidney disease) clostridial infection (enterotoxaemia) of sheep, in which there is rapid post-mortem degeneration of the kidneys.

New Zealand. A deficiency disease in sheep, characterized by lethargy.

blowfly strike: a disease affecting sheep. (Cf. strike, v. 45d.)

fly strike that affects the body, typically the withers, back, or sides, of a sheep (as opposed to the head, tail area, or penis).

Veterinary Medicine. A disease of pregnant ewes, provoked by imbalance between the degree of nourishment and the stage of pregnancy, and…

A copper deficiency disease affecting the nervous system of young lambs, causing paralysis. Cf. renguerra, n.

a pregnancy toxæmia in sheep, apparently caused by malnutrition.

a type of blood-poisoning in sheep, esp. lambs, caused by Staphylococcus aureus and leading to lameness or death.

a skin disease of sheep, caused by the maggots of blowflies, esp. those of the genera Lucilia and Calliphora.

A slowly progressive, fatal, chronic pneumonia of sheep caused by a lentivirus.

Infestation with nematodes of the genus Nematodirus, which causes severe diarrhoea, dehydration, and rapid loss of weight in young lambs.

A fatal disease of sheep in which there is progressive demyelination of neurones in the brain and spinal cord. Frequently attributive.

infection with maedi-visna virus; also called visna-maedi.

infection of sheep or goats by the visna-maedi virus, a lentivirus which may give rise to visna or maedi; cf. maedi-visna n. at maedi, n. compounds.