Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An imagined disease of cattle, having no scientific foundation. Also called
hollow horn .
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Examples
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Glad you got through with the pock so well — it takes a second time, some say — it's worse than horn-ail, hoven or core — There, Molly, let Bughorn go by, we will manage them.”
Margaret 1851
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