'Cattle plague' definitions:
Definition of 'cattle plague'
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noun
An acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes [syn: rinderpest, cattle plague]
Definition of 'Cattle plague'
From: GCIDE
- Plague \Plague\, n. [L. plaga a blow, stroke, plague; akin to Gr. ?, fr. ? to strike; cf. L. plangere to strike, beat. Cf. Plaint.]
- 1. That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- And men blasphemed God for the plague of hail. --Wyclif. [1913 Webster]
- The different plague of each calamity. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. "A plague upon the people fell." --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- Cattle plague. See Rinderpest.
- Plague mark, Plague spot, a spot or mark of the plague; hence, a token of something incurable. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cattle plague'
From: GCIDE
- Cattle \Cat"tle\ (k[a^]t"t'l), n. pl. [OE. calet, chatel, goods, property, OF. catel, chatel, LL. captale, capitale, goods, property, esp. cattle, fr. L. capitals relating to the head, chief; because in early ages beasts constituted the chief part of a man's property. See Capital, and cf. Chattel.] Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine. [1913 Webster]
- Belted cattle, Black cattle. See under Belted, Black.
- Cattle guard, a trench under a railroad track and alongside a crossing (as of a public highway). It is intended to prevent cattle from getting upon the track.
- cattle louse (Zool.), any species of louse infecting cattle. There are several species. The {H[ae]matatopinus eurysternus} and H[ae]matatopinus vituli are common species which suck blood; Trichodectes scalaris eats the hair.
- Cattle plague, the rinderpest; called also {Russian cattle plague}.
- Cattle range, or Cattle run, an open space through which cattle may run or range. [U. S.] --Bartlett.
- Cattle show, an exhibition of domestic animals with prizes for the encouragement of stock breeding; -- usually accompanied with the exhibition of other agricultural and domestic products and of implements. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'cattle plague'
From: GCIDE
- Rinderpest \Rin"der*pest\ (r[i^]n"d[~e]r*p[e^]st), n. [G., fr. rind, pl. rinder, cattle + pest pest, plague.] A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and {steppe murrain}. [1913 Webster]