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morfounding

morfounding is the present participle and gerund of morfound.

Meaning of morfound

Verb

morfound (third-person singular simple present morfounds, present participle morfounding, simple past and past participle morfounded)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To affect (an animal or person) with catarrh or coldlike illness.
    • As doth an hors morfounded by the waye / Whiche none accompte doth set by sporre ne thynge1509, Antoine de la Sale, The fyftene joyes of maryage, London: Wynkyn de Worde, page 44

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Noun

morfounding (uncountable)

  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...
    • 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

Questions about morfounding

What does morfounding mean?
Morfounding means catarrh or coldlike illness; morfound.
What is morfounding the present participle and gerund of?
Morfounding is the present participle and gerund of morfound.
What part of speech is morfounding?
Morfounding is a noun.

Words near morfounding in the dictionary

  1. Morfords
  2. morforex
  3. morfound
  4. morfounded
  5. morfoundering
  6. morfounding
  7. morfounds
  8. Morfrey
  9. MoRFs
  10. Morfydd
  11. Morga

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