1. = QUARTER-ILL.
a. 1722. Lisle, Observ. Husb. (1757), 290. The joint-murrain in calves … by others is called the quarter-evil.
1800. Tuke, Agric., 259. A complaint very prevalent amongst calves, when a year old, is called the … quarter evil…. The calves are first seized in one quarter, and are lame.
1841. Dick, Man. Vet. Science (1862), 148. In two or three hours the animal is dead, from the Quarter-evil.
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 548. Rabbits, which are relatively refractory to quarter-evil.
2. [QUARTER sb. 25.] An inflammation of part of the udder (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1897).
