malanders

American

[mal-uhn-derz] / ˈmæl ən dərz /

Or mallanders,

noun

(used with a singular verb)

a dry, scabby or scurfy eruption or scratch behind the knee in a horse's foreleg.

malanders British

/ ˈmæləndəz /

plural noun

(functioning as singular) a disease of horses characterized by an eczematous inflammation behind the knee

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Etymology

Origin of malanders

1400–50; late Middle English malaunder < Middle French malander < Latin malandria blister on a horse's neck; -s ³

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Among horses it is the agent in the production of necrotic malanders, quittor, and diphtheritic inflammation of the large intestine.

From Project Gutenberg

Also the "Malanders" meant leprosy, whence it came about that the epithet "Malandrin" was attached to a brigand, who, like the leper, was driven from society and forced to lead a lawless life.

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Besides being spavined and having three of his hoofs injured by sand-crack, he had poll-evil, fistulas, malanders, ring-bone, capped hock, curb, splint, and several other maladies which made him a very suitable horse for the general public to bet against.

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