LekhoriLekhoriInfectious disease; pestilence, plague; (countable) sometimes used in curses such as a murrain on someone: an outbreak of such a disease; a plague.
How a murryen came this chaunce, (ſay Tib) vnto our dame?
A widespread affliction, calamity, or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution; a plague.
Usura [a personification of usury] is a murrain, usura / blunteth the needle in the maid’s hand / and stoppeth the spinner’s cunning.
Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle or other livestock, such as anthrax, babesiosis, or rinderpest; or a particular epizootic thereof; also, an infectious disease affecting other animals, such as poultry.
water murrain
Disgusting or offensive, as if having an infectious disease; contemptible, despicable, loathsome, plaguey.
No, ich know thars not within this land / A muryner Cat than Gyb is, betwixt the tems [Thames] and Tyne, […]
Used as an intensifier: extremely, very.
It is a murrion crafty drab, and froward to be pleaſed.
The noun is derived from Late Middle English morein, morine, moreyn (“(widespread) death; widespread sickness, plague; fatal disease; carnage; carrion”), from Anglo-Norman morine, mourine, moreyn (“de...
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Used as an intensifier: to a great extent; extreme, intense.
But my Lady vvas in ſuch murrain haſte to be here, that ſet out ſhe vvould, thof' I tould her, it vvas Childermas Day.