farcy

[ fahr-see ]

noun,plural far·cies.Veterinary Pathology.

a form of glanders chiefly affecting the skin and superficial lymphatic vessels of horses and mules.

Origin of farcy

1375–1425; late Middle English farsy(n) <Anglo-French, Middle French farcin<Late Latin farcīminum glandular disease (Latin farcī(re) to stuff + Late Latin -minum for Latin -men noun suffix)

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How to use farcy in a sentence

It is that in cattle which glanders and farcy are in the horse,—the breaking up of the constitution.
Cattle and Their Diseases | Robert Jennings
The lymphatics become indurated and nodular, constituting what veterinarians call farcy pipes and farcy buds.
Manual of Surgery | Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
farcy, a disease to which horses are subject, still sometimes miscalled Fashions by country farriers.
The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. | Thomas Dekker
Or a nostrum that shall be sure work on a horse with a farcy?
Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) | John P. Kennedy
farcy is but one stage of this terrible disease, but is not necessarily fatal while in this stage.
The Mule | Harvey Riley

British Dictionary definitions for farcy

farcy

/ (ˈfɑːsɪ) /

nounplural -cies

vet science a form of glanders in which lymph vessels near the skin become thickened, with skin lesions and abscess-forming nodules, caused by a bacterium, Burkholderia mallei

Origin of farcy

C15: from Old French farcin, from Late Latin farcīminum glanders, from Latin farcīmen a sausage, from farcīre to stuff

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