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† dew-bolne, a. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 6 -bole, 7–9 -blown(e, 8 -born.
[f. dew n. + bolne ppl. a. The second element became corrupted into -bole, -born, -blown, and the last survives in dialects, associated with blown puffed up.]
Of cattle: Swollen with eating too freely of fresh moist grass or clover. Sometimes used subst. as the name of the affection.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §60 Dewbolne..commeth whan a hungry beaste is put in a good pasture full of ranke grasse, he wyll eate soo moche that his sydes wyll stande as hygh as his backebone. 1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1627) 33 The Dew-bole in Oxe, or Cow, or other beast..is gotten by eating of the trifoyle grasse in a deawy morning. 1601Holland Pliny xxviii. i, If kine or oxen were dew-blowne or otherwise puffed up. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. (1623) 98 Some of our English writers are opinioned, this Dewbolne or generall Gargill is a poysonous and violent swelling. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Dew-born, a distemper in cattle. 1884Chesh. Gloss., Dewblown, said of cows which are swelled from eating green clover. |