Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beast that has died by sickness or mischance, or (according to Halliwell) that is the product of an abortive birth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A beast that has died of disease or by mischance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
animal that has died ofdisease or bymischance .
Etymologies
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Akin to Swedish murken putrefied, Icelandic morkinn putrid.
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Examples
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This is obviously a good premise for a website, and he's already turned up some wonderful stuff, like morkin:I saw a dead possum on the road this morning.
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"Which way came you, sirrah?" asked a morkin of a death-imp.
The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702
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"How did you come hither, sirrah?" said a little morkin of
The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Ellis Wynne 1702
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