Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Leaping-evil: a disease of sheep which causes them to spring up and down in going forward.
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My abiding interest in infectious disease caused me to focus on the tickborne flavivirus, louping-ill virus, which was then regarded as problematic because of concerns about the safety of the vaccine, first developed at the Moredun many years previously.
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Immunosuppression in toxoplasmosis: studies in sheep with vaccines for chlamydial abortion and louping-ill virus
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
deinonychus commented on the word louping-ill
Ooh... I came here to list louping-ill, but leaping-evil is even better. Also trembling-ill, and the less magic-sounding infectious encephalomyelitis of sheep.
March 30, 2014