Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting cattle suffering from contagious pleuropneumonia, an extremely contagious and deadly disease of these animals.
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Examples
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Has not my master for a whole moon been lifeless and sad, until he looked even as the old cow that died of lung-sick but yesterday?
A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Frederick Cornell
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Three of them took the lung-sick and died, a lion got one, a snake got one, and one ate 'tulip' and died too.
Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Also it may be that she drew something from Hans, and from Goroko and the other Zulus with you, and thus paid us the fee that she had promised for our service, but in lung-sick oxen and barren cows, not in good cattle, Umslopogaas. "
She and Allan Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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