Definitions
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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Bono Responds To The Davos Question Michael Arrington 2005
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"The _barbone_ he had bought went with him," said the porter of the hotel.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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