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.
| 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 372/2 She had..aboute her necke & throte a twenty botches called glaundres. 1523 Fitzherb. 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.
| 1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §86 Glaunders is a disease, that..appereth at his nosethrylles, and betwene his chall bones. 1530 Palsgr. 183 Les glandres..a disease of a horse called the glaunders. a 1637 Dekker, etc. Witch Edmonton iv. i. Wks. 1873 IV. 397 My Horse this morning runs most pitiously of the glaunders. 1774 Goldsm. 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]. 1809 Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) IV. 416 Some of the stables at Lisbon are infected by Glanders. 1875 Ziemssen Cycl. Med. III. 320 Glanders and farcy are perfectly identical affections, both equally contagious, and differing only in their local manifestations. |
| fig. 1602 2nd 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.
| 1871 Darwin 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. 1878 T. 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.
| 1764 Grainger Sugar Cane i. 616 No glander-pest his airy stables thinn'd. 1884 Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 420 The characteristic glander-pustules appear in crops on the face. |