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Definition of Braxy
1. n. A disease of sheep. The term is variously applied in different localities.
Definition of Braxy
1. Noun. an inflammatory disease of sheep ¹
2. Noun. sheep that have died a natural death ¹
3. Noun. meat from sheep that have died from this disease ¹
4. Adjective. sick with braxy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Braxy
1. a fever of sheep [n BRAXIES]
Medical Definition of Braxy
1. 1. A disease of sheep. The term is variously applied in different localities. 2. A diseased sheep, or its mutton. Origin: Cf. AS. Breac rheum, broc sickness, Ir. Bracha corruption. Jamieson. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Braxy
Literary usage of Braxy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1906)
"The field of inoculation against braxy is not limited solely to the use of ...
Jensen's facilities for the complete study of braxy and the discovery of a ..."
2. Text Book of Veterinary Medicine by James Law (1906)
"braxy ... braxy is generally prevalent in Iceland where it was described over a
century ago (1778) by ..."
3. British Farmer's Magazine (1852)
"CURE OF braxy IN SHEEP. We have been favoured with the following valuable
communication upon this disease, so fatal to young sheep, the result of long ..."
4. The Breeds, Management, Structure and Diseases of the Sheep: With by Henry Judson Canfield (1848)
"Cases of braxy, produced by new wheat, are related by Mr. John Hawes, ...
Prevention of braxy and Rot. A review of the cau- •as which produca ..."
5. The Shepherd's Guide: Being a Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Sheep by James Hogg (1807)
"The third is a kind of Dry braxy, and can hardly be said to proceed from indigestion.
It makes its attacks during storms of snow, when the walk of the hoggs ..."
6. Handbook of meat inspection by Robert Ostertag, Earley Vernon Wilcox (1907)
"... septicemia of cattle, is, from a veterinary police standpoint, classed with
anthrax (p;>ge 58:-]). (f) braxy. ..."
7. The Gentleman's New Pocket Farrier: Comprising a General Description of the by Richard Mason, Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy, John Stuart Skinner (1883)
"... or braxy, bloody ray, and slimy flux, differs from simple scouring, in a
greater degree of fever attending it, and in ita being an inflammation of i ..."
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