Definitions for glanders

glanders glan·ders

Spelling: [glan-derz]
IPA: /ˈglæn dərz/

Glanders is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 474 anagrams from letters in glanders (adeglnrs).

Definitions for glanders

noun

  1. a contagious disease chiefly of horses and mules but communicable to humans, caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas mallei and characterized by swellings beneath the jaw and a profuse mucous discharge from the nostrils.

Origin of glanders

1475-85; Middle French glandres swollen glands Latin glandulae swollen glands, literally, little acorns. See gland1, -ule

Examples for glanders

Up to 1812 the communication of glanders to man failed to be recognized.

In 1894 the Comptroller was given power to appoint appraisers in cases of tuberculosis and glanders.

He insisted that I had typhoid fever, and glanders, and cholera.

The discharge of glanders is of a peculiar sticky nature and adheres tenaciously to the wings of the nostrils.

They seemed to have the pip, or glanders, or boll-weevil, or something unpleasant.

He planted his grain by the phases of the moon; kept his cows outside in winter; and was unaware that glanders was contagious.

Youatt says, there is not a disease which may not lay the foundation for glanders.

Horses found to be affected with glanders within six months of entry are slaughtered without compensation.

Gives a long and designedly loathsome account of glanders and farcy.

Going into the inn-yard, I had a great deal of learned discourse with an old ostler about the glanders in horses.

Word Value for glanders
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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