| 单词 |
glander |
| 释义 |
glander|ˈglændə(r)|
Forms: 5 glaundre, 6–7 glaunder, 7– glander(s.
[a. OF. glandre, *glandle gland2, ad. L. glandula glandule.]
†1. A glandular swelling about the neck. Obs.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 372/2 She had..aboute her necke & throte a twenty botches called glaundres. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §86 A glaunder, whan it breaketh, is lyke matter.
2. pl. (const. as sing.) (the) glanders: a contagious disease in horses, the chief symptoms of which are swellings beneath the jaw and discharge of mucous matter from the nostrils.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §86 Glaunders is a disease, that..appereth at his nosethrylles, and betwene his chall bones. 1530Palsgr. 183 Les glandres..a disease of a horse called the glaunders. a1637Dekker, etc. Witch Edmonton iv. i. Wks. 1873 IV. 397 My Horse this morning runs most pitiously of the glaunders. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. I. 437 note, A consumption of the ethmoid bones of the nose called the glanders, is with us the most infectious and fatal [disease of the horse]. 1809Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) IV. 416 Some of the stables at Lisbon are infected by Glanders. 1875Ziemssen Cycl. Med. III. 320 Glanders and farcy are perfectly identical affections, both equally contagious, and differing only in their local manifestations.
fig.16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. i. ii. 327 They haue some of them beene the old hedgstakes of the presse, and some of them are at this instant the botts and glanders of the printing house.
b. The same disease communicated to man.
1871Darwin Desc. Man I. i. 11 Man is liable to receive from the lower animals, and to communicate to them, certain diseases, as hydrophobia, variola, the glanders, &c. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 76 Glanders is a specific disease given to man by inoculation from the horse.
3. attrib. and Comb., as glander-pest, glander-pustule.
1764Grainger Sugar Cane i. 616 No glander-pest his airy stables thinn'd. 1884Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 420 The characteristic glander-pustules appear in crops on the face. |
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