Diarrhoea, esp. in cattle. Obsolete.

Diarrhoea in animals, esp. sheep; scouring.

Local name for dysentery or a similar disease in sheep and cattle; also called moor-evil or black-legs.

Disease seen in livestock (esp. cattle) grazing on moorland, or attributed to this; esp. (a) redwater (bovine babesiosis); (b) a (supposed) form of…

Diarrhoea, esp. in sheep or cattle; a disease of sheep characterized by this, or by skin irritation resulting from it.

A species of colic or diarrhoea in cattle.

The state or fact of being purged; a looseness or flux of the bowels, diarrhoea; esp. as a disease in livestock (= scour, n.2 2).

Disease seen in livestock grazing on moorland, or attributed to this; (probably) spec. moor-ill and wood-evil.

A kind of diarrhoea in livestock. Also plural (chiefly U.S.).

Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). Diarrhoea or dysentery in sheep or other livestock; an instance of this.

A wasting disease of sheep; spec. liver rot (hepatic fascioliasis) and cobalt deficiency. Cf. moor-ill, n.

Chronic looseness of the bowels (in animals).

Teart quality in grass; the diarrhoea suffered by cattle grazing a teart pasture.

a disease affecting mainly cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, caused by a mycobacterium and characterized by granulomatous inflammation of the…

Veterinary Medicine. = Johne's disease n. at Johne, n. 1.

= B.