murrion

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Adjective

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murrion (comparative more murrion, superlative most murrion)

  1. (obsolete) Infected with or killed by murrain.
    • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
      The fold stands empty in the drowned field, / And Crowes are fatted with the murrion flocke,

Noun

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murrion (plural murrions)

  1. Alternative form of morion