glanders

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noun a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans

From Middle English glandres, glaundres, from Old French glandres, plural of Old French glandre, from Latin glandula. Doublet of glandule.

Gives a long and designedly loathsome account of glanders and farcy. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
A horse is mortal; suppose mine had had the glanders or the farcy?” D’Artagnan did not smile. — The three musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
I could not save poor dear General Glanders, who was dying under the hands of that ignorant man--dying. — Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

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