Any virulent infectious disease of cattle or other livestock, such as anthrax, rinderpest, or babesiosis (redwater fever). Now chiefly historical.

Short for ‘sickness of the gall’, a disease in cattle. Obsolete.

A disease in cattle (see quot.).

A condition of cattle marked by agitated movement and the collection of blood in the lower intestine.

A disease in cattle, causing lameness or soreness near the hoof. (Cf. angleberry, n., foul, adj. 4a.)

(See quot.)

The sudden lying down of an ox, cow, etc.

An ulcer or sore of the coronet of a horse's foot, esp. one associated with contracted heels; (also) a sore of the foot in cattle.

A disease in cattle. Obsolete.

A disease of cattle (perhaps bovine farcy). Obsolete.

A disease of cattle. Cf. scurf, n.1 2.

A disease of cows. Obsolete.

An inflammatory disease of cattle.

a disease of cattle (not identified).

(see quot. 1722).

A disease of cattle (see quot.) (not identified). Cf. heartsickness, n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

Compositorial error for or misreading of throttling, n. (cf. quot. 1725 at throttling, n. 2).

A disease in calves; also blood-striking.

a disease among cattle.

(see quot. 1962).

Mastitis (infection of the udder) in a lactating cow or ewe; an instance of this. Now rare.

any of several acute diseases of livestock, typically associated with bleeding or reddish discoloration of tissues; esp. anthrax and blackleg…

the slows. U.S. Milk sickness in livestock or people, which is typically associated with lethargy or reluctance to move. Cf. Now historical.

a disease of cattle: see quot.

a fever occurring in coastal regions; spec. a disease, transmitted by ticks, which attacks cattle on the East Coast of Africa; = East Coast fever n.…

‘a disease of cattle, affecting the internal substance of the horn’ (Craig 1847).

Any of various things resembling a rat's tail in shape. = rat-tail, n. 2b. Obsolete.

Veterinary Medicine. A metabolic disorder occurring at the onset of lactation in dairy cows (and occasionally other species), in which hypocalcaemia…

anthrax of livestock, which causes gross splenomegaly, esp. in cattle; = miltsiekte, n.

(a) an epidermoid cyst of the central nervous system; (b) psammomatous meningioma; (c) = pearl disease n.; a lesion occurring in this.

Disease caused by bacteria of the genus Actinomyces in cattle, other animals, or humans, typically characterized by the formation of nodular…

a lung disease of cattle, spec. bovine tuberculosis.

Any of several diseases or disorders of animals (in later use esp. of cattle) causing loss of hair from the tail.

actinomycosis affecting the jaw, common in cattle.

Dwarfism in cattle.

A cattle disease. Also in plural. dialect and Australian.

Inflammation of the rumen; an instance of this.

= East Coast fever n. at East Coast, n. compounds 2.

Inflammation of the reticulum (of a ruminant).

An infectious disease of buffaloes and cattle; hæmorrhagic septicæmia.

a type of brucellosis in cattle caused by Brucella abortus and producing abortion.

Infection with trichomonads, which in humans is often symptomless; esp. (a) a venereal disease of women caused by Trichomonas vaginalis, in which…

any of several diseases typically contracted by cattle while being shipped from place to place, esp. one caused by bacteria of the genus Pasteurella.

infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, a disease affecting the eyes of cattle; cf. pink-eye, n.1 3(a).

spongiform encephalopathy of cattle, a fatal neurological disease characterized by behavioural disorders including unsteady gait and nervousness…

bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a progressive, fatal disease of the central nervous system of cattle, prominent signs of which are unsteadiness of…

†(a) a febrile disease epidemic among humans in South Africa (not identified) (obsolete rare). (b) Veterinary Medicine = theileriasis, n.