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▪ I. † morfound, n. Obs.
Also 6 morfounde, 7–8 morefound.
[f. morfound v.]
A disease in hawks, horses, sheep, etc., resulting from taking cold after being too hot.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §100 Morfounde is an yll sorance, and cometh of rydynge faste tyll he swete, and than sette vp sodeynely in a colde place. 1575Turberv. Falconrie 326 Morfound is the frenche worde which doth signifie in English the taking of colde. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. 74 (Sheep.) Of the Sturdy, Turning-euill, or More-found. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Turning Evil, The Morefound.
▪ II. † morfound, v. Obs.
Also 5 morefound, 6 morfonde, Sc. pa. pple. mortfundit.
[ad. F. morfondre to affect (a horse) with catarrh, to chill (a person) through; according to Hatz.-Darm. f. morve mucus, catarrh + fondre to melt: cf. found v.3 and v.5]
intr., refl., and in pass. Of horses or other animals: To take a thorough chill, to be benumbed with cold. Hence morfounded ppl. a.; morfounding vbl. n.
c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xii, Sometyme for þei [sc. hounds] more foundeth [Royal MS. morfoundeth] as an horse. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clxxiv. [clxx.] 516 We shal be morfounded and frosen to dethe. 1530Palsgr. 640/2, I morfonde, as a horse dothe that waxeth styffe by taking of a sodayne colde, je me morfons. 1575Turberv. Falconrie 326 Sometimes it falleth out that hawkes are morfounded. 1639T. de la Grey Compl. Horsem. 38 Morfounding, which is the foundring in the body by over riding. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. xxv. (1738) 85 Of a Cold and Morfounding.
transf.1513Douglas æneis vii. Prol. 136 The dew droppis congelyt on stibyll and rynd, And scharp hailstanis, mortfundit of kynd, Hoppand on the thak. |