morfounding

noun

morfounding

noun
1

Obsolete, Rare Catarrh or coldlike illness; morfound.

  • And it alſo preventeth ſudden ſicknes,if you have any ſuſpect ther of. Fiftly, the opening of the two Plate or Breaſt Veines doe help the Anticor, Sickneſſe of the Heart, Morfounding, which is the foundring in the body by over riding whereby the Greaſe of the Horſe is molten; :Template:..1639, Thomas de Grey, “Of ſuch things which are of neceſsity to be knowne by every expert Ferrier, before he doth adventure to adminiſter” (chapter III), in The Compleat Horseman and Expert Ferrier, London: […] Thomas Harper, […] Nicholas Vavaſour, page 38:
  • Morfounding is no other than foundring in the body by molten greaſe, of which I have already treated in that ſection which diſcourſeth only upon the internal diſeaſes which afflict the bodies of Horſes; […]1673, Robert Almond, The Engliſh Horseman And Complete Farrier: […] , […] for Simon Miller, page 238:

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