Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To faint. · To give (sheep, cattle) the coe or rot.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorySickness; disease; pestilence. · An attack of illness, such as swooning, pangs of childbirth, etc. · A disease affecting sheep or cattle.
From Middle English cothe, from Old English coþu (“disease, sickness, pestilence”), from Proto-Germanic *kuþō.
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