Crossword-Solution: MURRAIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Murrain | n. | An infectious and fatal disease among cattle. |
| Murrain | a. | Having, or afflicted with, murrain. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “MURRAIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A pestilence, in Shakespeare's day. | 1 answer |
| Plague: Archaic. | 1 answer |
| cattle disease | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MURRAIN (5)
Must I endure this fellow’s insolence? A murrain on thee! Get thee hence! Begone Avaunt! and never cross my threshold more.
That sharp lawyer, Simon Murrain, hired by The Pope to advise them on both hearings had been adamant.
After the initial hearing on the complaint and before any decision was handed down by the judge, Murrain filed a motion for summary judgment on counts three, four, five and six--all of the counts related to state law.
When the judge turned his attention to the respondent, Simon Murrain stood to address the court looking more like a walking advertisement for expensive men's wear than an attorney.
That night, the slow mists of the evening dropped, Dropped as a cloth upon the dead, and rose Above the roofs, and by the Unlighted Shrine Lay as the slimy water of the troughs When murrain thins the cattle of Er-Heb: And through the mist men heard the Red Horse feed.
Quotes with MURRAIN (2)
A jaw like a mastiff's, a frame like a giant's, eyes like two daggers, a smile like a tiger's snarl," Bernard murmured." Aye, he is all that!!" Master Herbert said." A murrain be on him! And when I came to him, what did I do? I did bow in all politeness, yet stiffly withal to show him I'd not brook his surliness.""I did hear ye did bow so low that your head came below your knees," Bernard said.
Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1955–1957).