Scitte

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

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Add: [N. E. D. skit. Cf. A. D. 987. This year two diseases unknown to the English in past ages, viz. a fever among men and a murrain among cattle, called in the English language 'the skit', and which may be described as a flux of the bowels, sorely troubled the whole of England, causing . . . the universal loss of cattle, Fl. Wigorn.] scitte