murrain

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Infectious disease; pestilence, plague; (countable) sometimes used in curses such as a murrain on someone: an outbreak of such a disease; a plague.

   “How a murryen came this chaunce, (ſay Tib) vnto our dame?”

2. isim A widespread affliction, calamity, or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution; a plague.

   “Usura [a personification of usury] is a murrain, usura / blunteth the needle in the maid’s hand / and stoppeth the spinner’s cunning.”

3. isim Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle or other livestock, such as anthrax, babesiosis, or rinderpest; or a particular epizootic thereof; also, an infectious disease affecting other animals, such as poultry.

   “water murrain”

4. isim An infectious disease affecting plants.

   “potato murrain”

5. isim A poor-quality green-salted animal hide.

   “Green salted are those that have been salted and are thoroughly cured. […] In green-salted hides and skins, those weighing […] 14 to 25 pounds, if plump, kip, but if thin and poor are called runners or murrains, and are sold at two thirds the price of good kip; […]”

6. isim Death, especially from an infectious disease.

   “Moreyn dethe mortalité […] mourine […]”

7. isim Rotting flesh, especially of an animal which has died from a disease; carrion.

   “The fold ſtands empty, in the drovvned fiend, / And crovves are fatted vvith the murrion flocke.”

8. sıfat Disgusting or offensive, as if having an infectious disease; contemptible, despicable, loathsome, plaguey.

   “No, ich know thars not within this land / A muryner Cat than Gyb is, betwixt the tems [Thames] and Tyne, […]”

9. sıfat Used as an intensifier: to a great extent; extreme, intense.

   “But my Lady vvas in ſuch murrain haſte to be here, that ſet out ſhe vvould, thof' I tould her, it vvas Childermas Day.”

10. zarf Used as an intensifier: extremely, very.

    “It is a murrion crafty drab, and froward to be pleaſed.”