glandered
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of glandered
First recorded in 1660–70; glander(s) + -ed 3
Example Sentences
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Jest then I heerd a snift, like the coughin’ o’ a glandered hoss; an’ turnin’ suddintly round, I spied the biggest bar it hed ever been my luck to set eyes on.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne
He can cheat any man in England selling him a glandered horse.”
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey
The bite of the glandered horse is a rare means of infection.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
A horse slips and injures a joint; a horse stumbles and breaks his knees to the bone; a horse eats out of a manger in which a glandered horse has eaten.
From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre
The virulent matter used for starting the culture was procured from a pulmonary deposit and spleen of a glandered horse; the cultivation was continued through eight successive culture-fluids.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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