Also clowse, clush. (See quot.)

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1572.  Mascall, Govt. Cattle, Oxen (1627), 27. The Clowse is a kind of griefe which doth commonly happen on the necke of labouring cattle.

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1614.  Markham, Cheap Husb. (1623), 92. Now for the Closhe or Clowse, which causeth a beast to pill and loose the haire from his necke, and is bred by drawing in wet and rainie weather.

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1725.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Clush and swollen Neck, a Distemper in Cattle.

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  ¶ The following seems to be an error:

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1726.  Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Closh or Founder, a Distemper in the Feet of Cattle.

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So 1725.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Closh.

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