Esp. of a horse: suffering from difficulty in breathing, short of breath; pursive, pursy.

Esp. of a horse: suffering from shortness of breath; broken-winded; asthmatic; = pursy, adj.1 1.

Short of breath, wheezy, asthmatic; = pursive, adj. Now rare (chiefly English regional (northern)).

That roars (in various senses). Of a person or animal.

Farriery. Affected with the disease of a broken wind (see broken wind, n.); exhaling the air from the lungs with spasmodic efforts.

= broken-winded, adj.

= broken-winded, adj.

in Farriery, laborious breathing, usually due to previous inflammation; hence thick-winded adj.

slang. Of a horse: having defective respiration, affected with roaring (see roaring, n.1 3). Now rare.

figurative. Applied to the lungs.