Definitions for murrain

murrain mur·rain

Spelling: [mur-in]
IPA: /ˈmɜr ɪn/

Murrain is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in murrain (aimnrru).

Definitions for murrain

noun

  1. Veterinary Pathology. any of various diseases of cattle, as anthrax, foot-and-mouth disease, and Texas fever.
  2. Obsolete. a plague or pestilence.

Origin of murrain

1300-50; Middle English moreine, moryne Middle French morine a plague, equivalent to mor(ir) to die (≪ Latin morī) + -ine -ine2

Examples for murrain

You would be deriving me from William the Conqueror, with a murrain to you.

When your sheep died of the murrain you hung up their hides to dry—in the schoolhouse.

Such a murrain of kine, that dogs and ravens that fed on them were poisoned.

Is there any blight on your fields, any murrain in your herds?

Disease had attacked the inhabitants of the hamlet, a murrain their cattle.

May the murrain strike me if I can call to mind aught about her.

There would have been above 3,000, had it not been for the murrain that was here.'

What beasts could the boils break out on, when all were killed by murrain in verse 6?

The immediate cause of their taking off is ascribed to “murrain.”

Some of them fell a prey to wild beasts—some died of the murrain.

Word Value for murrain
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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