Charbon: Definition and part of speech

Charbon

  1. n. A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.
  2. n. A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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