Sc. Also thwarter-. [f. prec. + ILL sb.] A disease of sheep, characterized by distortion of the neck; louping-ill.
1791. Statist. Acc. Scot., I. 138. Palsy, called trembling, or thorter ill, to which those fed on certain lands are peculiarly subject.
1808. Sporting Mag., XXXII. 195. A sheep which had died of disease (the thorter ill) and was at the time in a state of putrescence.
1829. Hogg, Tales, Sheph. Cal., xvi. The thwarter-ill (a sort of paralytic affection) came among them [the sheep].
