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strangullion|stræŋˈgʌljən|
Forms: 5–6 stranguyllyon, (6 -guillyon, -guil(l)ion, -guelyon, stranglon), 6 strangulyon, 6–7 strangulion, 6– strangullion.
[a. OF. stranguillon, estranguillon (mod.F. étranguillon), ad. It. stranguglione:—popular L. *stranguliōnem, f. L. strangulāre to strangle: see -ion1.]
1. A disease of horses, characterized by inflammation and swelling of the glands of the throat. † Also rarely, a similar disease in human beings, a quinsy.
1481Caxton Reynard xxxii. (Arb.) 82 Yf ony man be seke..of colyk, stranguyllyon, stone, fystel or kanker. 1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §88 Stranguelyon is a lyght dysease to cure, and a horse wyl be very sore sycke therof. 1555Extracts Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) 64 It is fund that Thomas Bwyhes twa hors that hes stranglon that ar infeccatife. 1580T. Blundeville Curing Horses Dis. lxv. 25 Of the glanders, and strangulion, so called according to the Italian name, Stranguijlione. Most Ferrers doe take the glanders and strangulion, to be all one disease, but it is not so, for the glanders is that which the Physicians call Tonsillæ, and the strangulion is that which they call in Latin, Angina,..and we commonlie call it in English, the Squinancie, or Quinzie. 1727Bradley's Family Dict. s.v. Glanders, Those Humours..frequently produce the Strangullions, Diseases in the Throat [etc.]. 1847W. C. L. Martin Ox 139/1 The submaxillary and parotid glands are, from various causes, subject to acute inflammation and swelling called strangullion.
†b. (See quot.) Obs.
1756Osmer Treat. Horse iii. iii. (ed. 5) 121 A case..of..tumefied gland on the ileum, and consequent strangulation of the guts beneath it, vulgarly termed strangullion. Ibid. iii. iv. 125 This last kind of colic..is what the writers and farriers indiscriminately call ‘the strangullion’, or ‘twisting of the guts’, for such they always suppose it to be.
¶2. Used incorrectly for strangury. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 277/1 Stranguyllyon a sicknesse, chaulde⁓pisse. 1538St. Papers Hen. VIII, III. iii. 30, I besech you, becauss of my stranguillyon, gett me lycence to ryd apon a pyllyon. 1593Nashe Christ's T. 51 b, When on your death-beddes you shall lye, and cry out of the Stone, the Strangullion and the Goute, you shall not be heard. 1614Markham Cheap & Good Husb. i. xxiv. 21 Of the Strangullion. This is a sorenesse in the horses yard..: the signes are, hee will pisse oft, yet but a drop or two at once. 1655Moufet & Benet Health's Improv. 105 Their flesh being salted cureth Strangullions and the stone not confirmed. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Strangury..is vulgarly called the Strangullion. |