farcy, farcin

[Fr. farcin; Ital. farcin a, from Lat. farcio to stuff, because it swells out the legs of horses.] Vet .: A disease in horses, closely allied to glanders. There are two forms of the disease: (1) Glanders, mali a, ., affecting the pituitary membrane, and occasioning a profuse discharge from the nostrils, with pustular eruptions or small tumors, which soon suppurate, being attended by symptoms of malignant fever, and gangrene of various parts; (2) being the same disease, but appearing in the shape of small tumors (farcy-buds) about the legs, lips, face, neck, ., of the horse; sometimes very painful, suppurating and degenerating into foul ulcers. They are often seen together. ( Dunglison .) When the disease causes distended appearance of the lymphatic ve els, it is called Bud or Button Farcy; when confined to dropsical accumulations in and about the legs, Water Farcy. farcy-bud, s. Vet.: A little tumor which appears on the face, neck, or inside of the thigh of horses. It is generally the first indication of Farcy. fard, *faird, *feird, v. t. [Fr. farder.] 1. To paint over. "He found that beauty which he had left innocent farded and sophisticated with some court drug."- Wilson : Hist . James I. 2. To smear or slur over. "Nor will my conscience permit me to feird or daub over the causes of divine wrath."- Scott : Old Mortality, ch. xxi. 3. To embellish, to set off, to adorn. "They mask a feigned heart with the veil of fairded language."- Cal der wood . *fard (1), s . [FARD, v.] Paint, color.