Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A chronic form of glanders that affects chiefly the skin and superficial lymph vessels.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. A contagious disease of horses, resembling glanders.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (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 .
Etymologies
- French farcin; compare Latin farciminum a disease of horses, from farcire. See farce. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English farsi, farsin, from Old French farcin, from Latin farcīmen, sausage, from farcīre, to stuff. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“These nodes, which are known as farcy "buds" and farcy "buttons," are from the size of a bullet to the size of a walnut.”
“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 ...”
“HANDEL: We ` re thinking on my radio station they ` re about to do farcy folk songs from Fresno with Muqtada Akbar (ph), your morning host.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is that in cattle which glanders and farcy are in the horse, -- the breaking up of the constitution.”
“Gives a long and designedly loathsome account of glanders and farcy.”
“Can't you understand why I kept it to myself, or must I explain at length -- as I explained the farcy-buds?”
“_Gives a long and designedly loathsome account of glanders and farcy_”
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