单词 | morfound |
释义 | † morfoundn. Obsolete. In a horse or other animal: lameness, stiffness, or other symptoms attributed to taking cold. Later also: gid in sheep. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > taking cold morfounda1500 a1500 Care of Horses (Cambr.) f. 69 The mareffownd is whan þt a hors is redyn hote and is sette vp colde vp-on the bare erthe & þat maketh his hote bloode for to falle down into his legges & than he is werye & lyth down. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxiiiiv Morfounde is an yll sorance, and cometh of ridyng fast tyll he swete. And than set vp sodenly in a colde place. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 326 Morfound is the Frenche worde which doth signifie in English the taking of colde. 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry 74 [Sheep] Of the Sturdy, Turning-euill, or More-found. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Turning Evil The Morefound. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † morfoundv. Obsolete. intransitive. Of a horse or other animal: to suffer from morfound; to take a severe chill. Also transitive (in passive) and in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > of animals generally: have disorder [verb (intransitive)] > take cold morfounda1425 morfounder1525 a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xii Sometyme for þei [sc. hounds] more foundeth [v.r. more founded] as an horse. c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 69 (MED) Þe moustenesse of þe erþe shuld not make hem morfound [v.r. more founded; Fr. enfondre], ne engendere oþer siknesse. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 640/2 I morfonde, as a horse dothe that waxeth styffe by taking of a sodayne colde, je me morfons. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 326 Sometimes it falleth out that Hawkes are morfounded. Derivatives morfounded adj. rare ΚΠ 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxxiv. [clxx.] 516 We shal be morfounded and frosen to dethe. morfounding n. ΚΠ 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. i. 38 Morfounding, which is the foundring in the body by over riding. c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide ii. xxv. 99 Of a Cold and Morfounding. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1500v.a1425 |
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