gleet

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The horse may be caused to inhale the vapor of compound tincture of benzoin by pouring 2 ounces of this drug into hot water and fumigating in the usual way If the nasal gleet is the result of a diseased tooth, the latter must be removed.

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  1. noun Inflammation of the urethra resulting from chronic gonorrhea and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge.
  2. noun The discharge that is characteristic of this inflammation.

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  1. Middle English glet, slime, from Old French glette, from Latin glittus, sticky.

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  1. Also dial. (Scots) glit (q. v.); from Middle English glet, glette, once glat (for *glete), slime, from Old French glete, glette, glecte, a flux, secretion, humor, mucus, matter.
  2. from gleet, n.
 

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