Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chronic form of glanders that affects chiefly the skin and superficial lymph vessels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A disease of horses; a form of equinia. See
equinia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Far.) A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also
farcin , andfarcimen . - noun a hard, prominent swelling occurring upon the cutaneous surface in farcy, due to the obstruction and inflammation of the lymphatic vessels, and followed by ulceration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
contagious disease ofhorses , resemblingglanders .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These nodes, which are known as farcy "buds" and farcy "buttons," are from the size of a bullet to the size of a walnut.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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And it is possible that Mr. Reichert could decide he actually does still want the job only do discover that little marcy farcy has stolen it out from under him ...
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Ireland, had the farcy for his pains; and that there was a good farcical house, large enough to hold — aye -- and sublimate them, shag rag and bob-tail, male and female, all together: and this leads me to the affair of Whiskers — but, by what chain of ideas — I leave as a legacy in mort-main to Prudes and Tartufs, to enjoy and make the most of.
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Ireland, had the farcy for his pains; and that there was a good farcical house, large enough to hold — aye — and sublimate them, shag rag and bob-tail, male and female, all together: and this leads me to the affair of Whiskers — but, by what chain of ideas — I leave as a legacy in mort-main to Prudes and Tartufs, to enjoy and make the most of.
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Nodules and ulcers may form on the skin over the inferior wall of the abdomen and the inside of the hind limbs and are known as "farcy buds."
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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It is that in cattle which glanders and farcy are in the horse, -- the breaking up of the constitution.
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Gives a long and designedly loathsome account of glanders and farcy.
The Story of the Gadsbys Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Can't you understand why I kept it to myself, or must I explain at length -- as I explained the farcy-buds?
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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_Gives a long and designedly loathsome account of glanders and farcy_
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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