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murrain
1. An infectious disease that affects cattle; for example, anthrax.
2. Any plague-like disease of domestic animals.
3. A plague or an infectious and fast-spreading disease.
4. Etymology: "cattle plague", about 1330, from Old French moraine, "pestilence" from mourir, "to die" from Latin mori.
This entry is located in the following unit: mort-, mor-, mori-, morti- + (page 5)