morfound
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As doth an hors morfounded by the waye / Whiche none accompte doth set by sporre ne thynge"
- "The court is a perpetuall dꝛeame, a bottomeleſſe whoꝛlepole, an inchaunted phantaſy, and a maſe: when he is in, he cannot get out till he be moꝛfounded."
- "SOmetimes it falleth out that Hawkes are moꝛfounded by ſome miſchaunce,and ſometimes alſo by giuing them to great a goꝛge,ſpecially when they be wette."
- "Fourthly, ſuruay the ſcituation of Spaine, which generally yeeldeth moe rockes and barren hils, than champain and plaine fieldes, from which (after the midſt of Iune) they reape no profite till the next ſpring: their trees and vines excepted, neither haue they any great vse of their riuer waters, which are ſo troubled and extreme colde in the firſt part of ſummer by ſnowes, that deſcend from the hils by the heate of the ſunne, that they do not onely morfound and kill horſes, but alſo men if they haue not the dayly vſe of Garlike, which is eſteemed very profitable for them that drinke corrupted water."
- "What shall we thynke to do? if we lye here all this wynter, longe and colde nyghtes, we shal be morfounded and frosen to dethe: […]"
- "Cough and morfound."
Etymology
From Middle English morfounden, morefounden (“to take cold”), from Middle French morfondre (“to chill, to cool”), from Franco-Provençal mor, more (“snout”) + Middle French fondre (“to melt”), where the first part comes from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”), and the second from Latin fundere. Cognate with French morfondre. The noun is inherited from Middle English mareffownd, mareffownde, likely from the Middle English morfounden, morefounden (“to take cold”).