feather cling

A disease of black cattle. Scotch.) "This disorder is occasioned by want of water in very dry summers, or in the hard frosts of winters. The food parches the stomach and intestines, hardens and concretes in the fold of the second stomach or monny plies, so that the dung of the animal is excreted in small quantities, and in the form of small hard purls, which are generally black and fœtid." ( Prize E ays, Highl. Soc., S. fi. 218.) feather-columbine, feathered - columbine, feathering-columbine, s. Bot.: A book name for Thalictrum aquilegium . (Britten & Holland .)