MURRAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does murrain mean? 

• MURRAIN (noun)
  The noun MURRAIN has 1 sense:

1. any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague

  Familiarity information: MURRAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MURRAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("murrain" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

 Context examples 

That is why I say that the murrain was the best friend that the borel folk ever had.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Never had I such cursed luck. A murrain on the bones! I have not thrown a good main since I left Navarre. A one and a three! En avant, camarade!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“May the murrain strike me if I can call to mind aught about her.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)