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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fatal contagious disease of the buffalo, identical with hemorrhagic septicemia of cattle and deer: caused by a minute polar-stained organism of the swine-plague group. See also buffalo-cholera.
  • noun A silver coin of Lucca weighing 44.25 grains.

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