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Affecting
adjective · 78% connection
Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Anthrax
noun · 78% connection
An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Bag
noun · 78% connection
mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Blendwater
noun · 78% connection
A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Buck
noun · 78% connection
The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes, or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Cattle
n. pl. · 78% connection
Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Charbon
noun · 78% connection
A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Cholera
noun · 78% connection
One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Distemper
verb · 78% connection
A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a diste…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Drove
noun · 78% connection
A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Drover
noun · 78% connection
One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Epizootic
noun · 78% connection
An epizootic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Foothalt
noun · 78% connection
A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Gargil
noun · 78% connection
A distemper in geese, affecting the head.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Glanders
noun · 78% connection
A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Goatsucker
noun · 78% connection
One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Euro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Gonorrhoea
noun · 78% connection
A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a muco…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.
Horn
noun · 78% connection
A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, distemper, murrain, affecting.