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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Canine madness; rabies; hydrophobia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Hydrophobia.

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  • noun an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain

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