farcy

English

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Etymology

From French farcin. Compare Latin farciminum (“a disease of horses”), from farcire. See farce.

Noun

farcy (countable and uncountable, plural farcies)

  1. A contagious disease of horses, resembling glanders

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for farcy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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