Swollen. Applied to cattle which have “the heaves.”
1573.
| Tom Piper hath houen and puffed vp cheekes, | |
| if cheese be so houen, make Cisse to seek creekes. | |
Tusser’s ‘Husbandry.’ (N.E.D.) |
1805. Hoven cattle.—One evil attending luxuriant clover … is the subjecting cattle to become hoven, by too greedily feeding on this grass, when it is growing, or when cut and given to them green while it is wet with dew or rain.—The Balance, Aug. 6, p. 252/1.
1827. Mr. Thenard has made use of ammoniac for fourteen hoven cows.—Mass. Spy, July 4.
