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# murrain

«murrain» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **cattle plague** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

cattle plague

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A deadly disease that kills cattle and other farm animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/murrain/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say cattle plague or disease.

### examples

- behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks; there shall be a very grievous murrain. (Torah EXO.9.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/murrain/#x1)
- Perchance thou hast watered them with foul water, so that their blood is stagnant, and their flesh inflamed?"--"The murrain take 'em if I know thy meaning!" cried the poor brother. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/murrain/#x2)

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 2 (Torah 1, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «murrain» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/M/murrain/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.