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A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It

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A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

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• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• DESTRUCTIVENESS
  The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• CONSTANTIA
  A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• ASSESSABLE
  Liable to be assessed or taxed; as, assessable property.
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• HIGHLY
  In a high manner, or to a high degree; very much; as, highly esteemed.
• ASSESSORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors. Coxe.
• BENEATH
  1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
• LOWER
  Compar. of Low, a.
• WITHIN
  with, against, toward + innan in, inwardly, within, from in in. See 1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
• ASSESSEE
  One who is assessed.
• CONTAGIOUSLY
  In a contagious manner.
• DESTRUCTIVELY
  In a destructive manner.
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• HORSESHOEING
  The act or employment of shoeing horses.
• WITHINSIDE
  In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
• CO-ASSESSOR
  A joint assessor.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• REASSESSMENT
  A renewed or second assessment.