mange

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He went on sturdily with his blanc-mange, arranging his strawberry jam carefully, that he should have an excess of that for the last spoonful Captain Carew stared surprisedly at him Eh?

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  1. noun Any of several chronic skin diseases of mammals caused by parasitic mites and characterized by skin lesions, itching, and loss of hair.

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  • Many of the pets were covered with mange -- a skin condition that causes fur loss. —  WSBTV.com - Local News
  • Karen of Atlanta GA (05 / 29 / 08) 2 Puppies in the store have mange, they are a mixed breed appromately 5 months old, another puppy, a bulldog, has pneumonia.
  • When we met with their vet we asked if mange was hereditary, we were told yes.
  • He went on sturdily with his blanc-mange, arranging his strawberry jam carefully, that he should have an excess of that for the last spoonful Captain Carew stared surprisedly at him Eh? —  An Australian Lassie
  • Camels frequently have the mange, and then they are tarred over. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
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  1. Middle English manjeue, from Old French manjue, from mangier, to eat; see manger.

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  1. from Middle English mangen, maungen, from Old French mangier, French manger = Spanish Portuguese manjar = Italian mangiare, eat, from Latin manducare, chew, Late Latin eat, devour: see manducate. Cf. manch, maunch, mounch, munch, other forms of the same word.
  2. Early modern English mangy reduced to mange (whence the adjective mangy, from mange + -y), from Old French mangeue, mangue, manjue, menjue, itch, also eating, voracity, also what is eaten, food eaten (= Portuguese manjua, food), from Middle Latin *manducata, feminine, manducatus, masculine, what is eaten (cf. Old French mangeison, mangeson, also demangeison, French demangeaison, itch), from Latin manducare, chew, Late Latin eat, devour (later Old French manger, eat): see mange. Cf. mangy, n.
 

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