Of cattle: Swollen with eating too freely of fresh moist grass or clover. Sometimes used substantively as the name of the affection.

†(a) a disease in cattle resulting from scanty feeding; (b) a miserly wretch (dialect).

(of livestock) affected with an illness attributed to being put out to grass; (in later use) spec. (of a horse) affected with grass sickness (grass si…

a disease in cattle, consisting of an excessive distension of the rumen with food.

A disease of cattle, characterized by an inflation of the stomach, usually due to eating too much green fodder.

(originally) any of various disorders causing incoordination or muscular weakness or spasms in livestock, including louping ill and (U.S.) loco…

spec. in Veterinary Path. A disease of livestock characterized by an accumulation of gases in the stomach; = hoove, n.

In plural. Australian. An affliction of livestock, esp. of cattle, attributed to consumption of the leaves of plants of the family Zamiaceae…

= grain-sick n.

= bloat, n. 1b (Cf. blow, v.1 22c.)

(see quot.).

a disease of cattle caused by the eating of dry corn-stalks.

sickness of cattle; spec. = bush-sickness n. at bush, n.1 compounds 2.

Veterinary Medicine. attributive, esp. in Molteno disease. Designating or relating to ragwort poisoning (seneciosis) in livestock, esp. cattle.

A disorder occurring in cows and ewes turned out to grass after parturition, characterized by muscle spasms, convulsions, and a high mortality…