单词 | dew-bolne |
释义 | † dew-bolneadj. Obsolete exc. dialect. Of cattle: Swollen with eating too freely of fresh moist grass or clover. Sometimes used substantively as the name of the affection. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > dietary disorders dew-bolne?1523 hunger-rot?1523 grass-sick1607 grain-sick1834 hoove1840 grass staggers1858 bloat1878 wobbles1886 grain-founder1890 blowing1891 veld sickness1896 corn-stalk disease1900 cattle-sickness1903 Molteno disease1911 grass tetany1931 the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [adjective] > dietary disorders dew-bolne?1523 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxvii Dewebolne [printed dewebolue]..cometh whan a hungry beest is putte in a good pasture full of ranke grasse. He woll eate soo moche: that his sydes woll stande as hye as his backe bone. 1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1627) 33 The Dew-bole in Oxe, or Cow, or other beast..is gotten by eating of the trifoyle grasse in a deawy morning. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxviii. i. 294 If kine or oxen were dew-blowne or otherwise puffed up. 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (1623) 98 Some of our English writers are opinioned, this Dewbolne or generall Gargill is a poysonous and violent swelling. 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Dew-born, a distemper in cattle. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Dewblown, said of cows which are swelled from eating green clover. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.?1523 |
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