Any of various diseases, esp. of livestock, characterized by unsteadiness on the legs or the tendency to walk in circles; spec. the disease of…

The condition (in animals) of being ‘sturdy’ or dizzy; spec. in sheep. = sturdy, n. 1.

Vertigo, swimming in the head; also, staggers in the horse. Obsolete.

A brain-disease in sheep and cattle, which makes them run round and round; the turnsick.

The ‘gid’ or ‘sturdy’, a disease of sheep and young cattle.

In plural (construed as singular). The staggers = stagger, n.1 2.

allusively. (to have) the staggers: inability to walk steadily.

Giddiness; spec. a brain-disease of sheep, caused by the hydatid Cœnurus cerebralis. Also giddy, n.

= gid, n.1

A disease causing cattle to turn round and round; gid. Also turn-about sickness, vertigo. Obsolete.

plural = staggers: see stagger, n.1 2.

= turn-sick, n. 2.

In plural. Any of various diseases of animals characterized by incoordination, staggering, or falling; = stagger, n.1 2a. Now rare.

(see stagger, n.1 2).

plural. the goggles, a disease of sheep; the staggers or sturdy.

A disease of sheep; = dazy, n. Obsolete.

a variety of staggers (stagger, n.1 2) caused by distension of the stomach.

A disease caused by an encysted worm in the brain of the sheep; the gid or sturdy. dialect. Cf. turn, n. 3.

a disease of cattle, also affecting the dog, resembling the gid in sheep: cf. turn-sick, n., turnabout, n. 2.

a disorder characterized by abnormal gait and other neurological signs, seen sporadically in sheep and cattle grazing on Phalaris species, esp. on…