| 单词 | the slows |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe slows 3. the slows. extracted from slown.1 a. U.S. Milk sickness in livestock or people, which is typically associated with lethargy or reluctance to move. Cf. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle murrainc1450 gall1577 gargyse1577 sprenges1577 wisp1577 closh1587 milting1587 moltlong1587 hammer1600 mallet1600 scurvy1604 wither1648 speed1704 nostril dropping1708 bladdera1722 heartsick1725 throstling1726 striking1776 feather-cling1799 hollow-horn1805 weed1811 blood striking1815 the slows1822 toad-bit1825 coast-fever1840 horn-distemper1843 rat's tail1847 whethering1847 milk fever1860 milt-sickness1867 pearl tumour1872 actinomycosis1877 pearl disease1877 rat-tail1880 lumpy jaw1891 niatism1895 cripple1897 rumenitis1897 Rhodesian fever1903 reticulitis1905 barbone1907 contagious abortion1910 trichomoniasis1915 shipping fever1932 New Forest disease1954 bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987 BSE1987 mad cow disease1988 East Coast fever2009 1822 N.-Y. Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 316 In the district of country last mentioned the disease [sc. sick stomach or milk sickness] is called the ‘Slows’. 1908 E. O. Jordan Text-bk. Gen. Bacteriol. xxv. 374 Changes in the liver, intestine, and other internal organs are similar to those observed in animals dying of the ‘slows’. 2006 Indiana Mag. Hist. 102 32 Long after the Lincolns departed for Illinois, milk sickness persisted in Indiana...Especially in the area of French Lick, where the chronic form was called the ‘slows’. b. colloquial. A tendency to move or act slowly, sometimes humorously imagined as an ailment; slowness. Frequently in to have the slows. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > torpor or sluggishness heavinessc888 gravity1610 the slows1832 malaise1857 the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [noun] > imaginary ailment causing slowness the slows1832 1832 G. C. Lewis Let. 7 Nov. (1870) 17 Lest Gilbert should think that the Hereford horses have a monopoly of the slows. 1833 Sporting Mag. May 8/2 The hounds..are seldom troubled with the slows. 1862 G. Welles Diary 2 Sept. in W. E. Gienapp & E. L. Gienapp Civil War Diary Gideon Welles (2014) 27 McClellan..can be trusted to act on the defensive, but having the ‘slows’ he is good for nothing for an onward movement. 1927 Daily Express 13 Dec. 16/2 Rimell's mare, How Nice, had a fit of the slows, for she was always in the next division from start to finish. 1970 D. Francis Rat Race viii. 102 They might as well send him to the knackers. Got the slows right and proper, that one has. 2009 Mississippi Business Jrnl. (Nexis) 6 July The state might have had the ‘slows’ when it came to the state budget, but it has been ahead of the curve when it comes to grabbing stimulus money. < as lemmas |
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