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Offsite: Illustration of 'murrain' Dore: The Murrain Of Beasts

Through reading Simon Winchester's assiduosly-researched books, I am picking up much new vocabulary: murrain, a weighted word which comes from a Hebrew word for plague, and has a modern denotation for a disease of cattle or other domesticated beasties.

salim filed this under lingo at 12h57 Tuesday, 26 July 2005 (link) (Yr two bits?)