Lexicographical Neighbors of Mowburnt
Literary usage of Mowburnt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horse by William Youatt, Walker Watson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1874)
"... 216, 217 mowburnt hay injurious, 135 Muriatic acid, its properties, 475 Muscles,
description of the, 141 Muscles of the back, description of the, 252; ..."
2. Psychology: Normal and Morbid by Charles Arthur Mercier (1901)
"Similarly, if I find that in the handful that I have taken as a sample, two grains
out of every five are mowburnt, I may infer by induction that two-fifths ..."
3. Youatt on the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse with Their Remedies by William Youatt, William Charles Spooner, Henry Stephens Randall (1857)
"This is necessary for the developement of the saccharine principle ; but occasionally
it proceeds too far and the hay becomes mowburnt, in which state it is ..."
4. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1864)
"... to the southward of those colonies; that is, to the foreign West India islands;5
so that the broken and mowburnt rice might be sold as food for negroes, ..."
5. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1908)
"We did not agree for any barley, because someone had told him that my barley was
all mowburnt. Ned Grey kept holiday. The day was dry; we took in the ..."
6. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"mowburnt hay, in distinction to green Imy, or hay which has taken a moderate
heat, and vinny, or mouldy hay. Devon. REDID. Reddened. Weber. ..."
7. The Horse by William Youatt, Walker Watson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1874)
"... 216, 217 mowburnt hay injurious, 135 Muriatic acid, its properties, 475 Muscles,
description of the, 141 Muscles of the back, description of the, 252; ..."
8. Psychology: Normal and Morbid by Charles Arthur Mercier (1901)
"Similarly, if I find that in the handful that I have taken as a sample, two grains
out of every five are mowburnt, I may infer by induction that two-fifths ..."
9. Youatt on the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse with Their Remedies by William Youatt, William Charles Spooner, Henry Stephens Randall (1857)
"This is necessary for the developement of the saccharine principle ; but occasionally
it proceeds too far and the hay becomes mowburnt, in which state it is ..."
10. History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1864)
"... to the southward of those colonies; that is, to the foreign West India islands;5
so that the broken and mowburnt rice might be sold as food for negroes, ..."
11. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1908)
"We did not agree for any barley, because someone had told him that my barley was
all mowburnt. Ned Grey kept holiday. The day was dry; we took in the ..."
12. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"mowburnt hay, in distinction to green Imy, or hay which has taken a moderate
heat, and vinny, or mouldy hay. Devon. REDID. Reddened. Weber. ..."
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