Farcy

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A chronic form of glanders that affects chiefly the skin and superficial lymph vessels.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A contagious disease of horses, resembling glanders.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A disease of horses; a form of equinia. See equinia.
  • Word Usage
    "These nodes, which are known as farcy "buds" and farcy "buttons," are from the size of a bullet to the size of a walnut."
    Variant
    farcin    farcimen