quarter-evil
1. = quarter-ill.
| a 1722 Lisle Observ. Husb. (1757) 290 The joint-murrain in calves..by others is called the quarter-evil. 1800 Tuke Agric. 259 A complaint very prevalent amongst calves, when a year old, is called the..quarter evil..The calves are first seized in one quarter, and are lame. 1841 Dick Man. Vet. Science (1862) 148 In two or three hours the animal is dead, from the Quarter-evil. 1896 Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 548 Rabbits, which are relatively refractory to quarter-evil. |
2. [quarter n. 25.] An inflammation of part of the udder (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1897).