Braxy
a disease in sheep. This term is frequently applied to totally different disorders, but the true braxy is undoubtedly an intestinal affection, attended with diarrhea and retention of the urine. Young sheep are apt to gorge themselves with grass, turnips, etc.; this produces a kind of colic, which usually ends in death. Again, when a lean flock of sheep is placed suddenly on rich food, or on coarse pasture of an indigestible nature, the results may are said to die of braxy. prove fatal. In both cases the sheep are said to of braxy.