morfound

morfound means catarrh or coldlike illness.

Etymology

From Middle English morfounden, morefounden (“to take cold”), from Middle French morfondre (“to chill, to cool”), from Franco-Provençal mor, more (“snout”) + Middle French fondre (“to melt”), where the first part comes from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”), and the second from Latin fundere. Cognate with French morfondre. The noun is inherited from Middle English mareffownd, mareffownde, likely from the Middle English morfounden, morefounden (“to take cold”).

noun

Catarrh or coldlike illness.e.g.“Cough and morfound.” — 1633 [1590], Leonard Mascal [i.e, Leonard Mascall], “The Remedies and Medicines for Speepe and other Cattell”, in The Gouernment of Cattell, London: […] Thomas Harper for Iohn Hariſon, page 223:

verb

To affect (an animal or person) with catarrh or coldlike illness.e.g.“As doth an hors morfounded by the waye / Whiche none accompte doth set by sporre ne thynge” — 1509, Antoine de la Sale, The fyftene joyes of maryage, London: Wynkyn de Worde, page 44:

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