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▪ I. farcy, n.|ˈfɑːsɪ|
Also 5–6 farsy(e, 7 farsey, farcie, 8 fassee.
[variant of farcin.]
1. A disease of animals, esp. of horses, closely allied to glanders.
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 400 Medesyn for a horse that had the farsy xij. d. 1552Huloet, Farsye..a sore vpon a beast or horse. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. i. xlix. (1668) 61 For the Farcy..with a knife slit all the knots..and then rub in the Medicine. 1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4674/8 Has had the Fassee. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. ii. vi. 5 An Horse troubled with Farcy..cured himself of it in a short time by eating Hemlock. 1847Youatt Horse viii. 185 Farcy is intimately connected with glanders. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 115 Glanders and farcy are less frequently caught in knackeries than in stables.
b. = farcy-bud.
1684Lond. Gaz. No. 1989/4 The Horse has a Sore or Farcy on the Off-side. 1770Monthly Rev. 135 Horses..sent to the salt marshes..Leave there their glanders and their farcies.
2. The same disease as communicated to men.
1762Sterne Tr. Shandy V. i, I wish from my soul, that every imitator..had the farcy. 1865Morning Star 4 Jan., A cabman died of ‘acute farcy’.
3. attrib. and Comb., as farcy humour, farcy sore, farcy ulcer; farcy bud, one of the small tumours which occur during the progress of farcy; farcy button = prec., esp. applied where there is little thickening of connective tissue; farcy cords, farcy pipes, the hardened lymphatic vessels found in most cases of farcy; † farcy horse = farcied horse: see farcied ppl. a.
1533Surtees Misc. (1890) 34 That no man put eny farcy horsses..of the commen. 1802D. P. Blaine Outlines Veterinary Art (1816) 411 Every diffused swelling..even ossifications and ligamentary enlargements are termed farcy humours. 1842T. H. Burgess Man. Diseases Skin 182 The matter..of a farcy-bud will produce glanders. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 76 Tumours or a knotty condition of the subcutaneous glands, called ‘farcy buds’.
▪ II. farcy, v. nonce-wd.|ˈfɑːsɪ|
[? ad. Fr. farcir: see farce v.]
trans. To stuff.
1830S. J. Barrington Pers. Sk. Own Times (ed. 2) II. 186 Poetry, with which the publishers were crammed and the public farcied. |