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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A disease of ordinary fowls, turkeys, pigeons, and more rarely geese, chiefly affecting the head and appearing as an eruption of round or oblong yellow nodules having somewhat the appearance of warts. See also bird-pox.

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