murrion

English

Noun

murrion (plural murrions)

1. Alternative spelling of morion

Noun

murrion (countable and uncountable, plural murrions)

1. Obsolete spelling of murrain. [16th–17th c.]
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature B4, verso:

     The fold ſtands empty, in the drovvned fiend, / And crovves are fatted vvith the murrion flocke.

   • c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature [C4], recto:

     [A] red murrion ath thy Iades trickes.

   • 1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker, Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, Act IV, signature F2, verso:

     VVhat the Murrion care I vvho you are, hold off your Fingers, or Ile cut them vvith this Diamond.

   • c. 1619 (date written), P[hilip] M[assinger], N[athan] F[ield], The Fatall Dowry: A Tragedy. […], London: […] Iohn Norton, for Francis Constable, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act III, signature G, recto:

     [I]f our freſh vvits cannot turne the plots / Of ſuch a mouldy murrion on it ſelfe; / Rich cloathes, choyſe fare, and a true friend at a call, / VVith all the pleaſures the night yeelds, forſake vs.