† giggsgigsn.
Obsolete.
With plural agreement. A mouth-disease in horses (see quots.).
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barblec1440
barb?1523
lampas?1523
giggs1566
rampone1580
camery1587
flap1587
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palamie1600
tin-blain1614
lick1827
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 29, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Of the Bladders in a Horses mouth which our olde Ferrers were wont to call the Gigges. The Italians call them Floncelle.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 362 The Gigs..be litle soft swellings or rather pustuls with blacke heads, growing in the inside of his [sc. a horse's] lips, next vnto the great iaw-teeth.
1623 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. (ed. 3) 75 The Iigs.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. ix. 211 Having the Lampes, Barbs, Giggs, Blisters, bloudy-rifts.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) (at cited word) These Giggs proceed from foul Feeding, either of Grass or Provender.
1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery xliv. 320 There are frequently observed on the inside the lips and palate, little swellings or bladders, called Giggs.
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