Definitions for murrains

murrains mur·rain

Spelling: [mur-in]
IPA: /ˈmɜr ɪn/

Murrains is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 260 anagrams from letters in murrains (aimnrrsu).

Definitions for murrains

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 murrains

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

Examples for murrains

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for murrains
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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