Word Meanings - GLANDERS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

• CONTAGIOUSDISEASE
  A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the transmission o
• Characterizing
  of Characterize
• Diseasedness
  The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness.
• Humanism
  Human nature or disposition; humanity.
• Induration
  The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.
• Sheepberry
  The edible fruit of a small North American tree of the genus Viburnum (V. Lentago), having white flowers in flat cymes; also, the tree itself. Called also nannyberry.
• Sheep-shearer
  One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep.
• LOWERCASE
  Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
• Characterize
  To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.
• Diseaseful
  Causing uneasiness.
• Humanist
  One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title.
• Sheepbite
  To bite or nibble like a sheep; hence, to practice petty thefts.
• Sheep-shearing
  Act of shearing sheep.
• MATTEROFFACT
  Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
• Constant
  Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid.
• Diseasefulness
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial.
• Humanistic
  Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion.
• Lowered
  of Lower

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