Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An infectious catarrhal fever affecting horses. Young animals principally are attacked. One attack confers subsequent immunity. See
strangles .
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Examples
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Early age, which has given it the popular name of colt-ill, offers many more subjects than the later periods of life do, for the animal can contract the disease but once, and the large majority of adult and old animals have derived an immunity from previous attacks.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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_ -- Distemper; colt-ill; catarrhal fever; one form of shipping fever; febris pyogenica.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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