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Croup   /krup/   Listen
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Croup  n.  The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle. "So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung."



Croup  n.  (Med.) An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.






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... an alarm cannot spread rapidly and open the means of flight, they are pressed against each other, and their anxiety to escape compels them to bound up in the air, showing at the same time the white spot on the croup, dilated by the effort, and closing again in their descent, and producing that beautiful effect from which they have obtained the name ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish

... asking me what the country looks like between Ludd and Haifa. I didn't even wake up to see the Lake of Tiberias, Sea of Galilee, or Bahr Tubariya, as it is variously called. A rather common sickness is what Sir Richard Burton called Holylanditis and I've had it, as well as the croup and measles in my youth. Some folk never recover from it, and to them a rather ordinary sheet of water and ugly modern villages built on ruins look like the pictures that an ...
— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy

... The Cynanche trachealis, or Croup, of Dr. Cullen, or Angina polyposa of Michaelis, if they differ from the peripneumony of infants, seem to belong to this genus. When the difficulty of respiration is great, venesection is immediately necessary, and then an emetic, and a blister. And the ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... the man his horses on the croup, And they begin to draw now, and to stoop. "Heit there," quoth he; "heit, heit; ah, matthywo. Lord love their hearts! how prettily they go! That was well twitched, methinks, mine own grey boy: I pray God save thy body, and ...
— Playful Poems • Henry Morley

... about his death which individualized it, and hung a certain sadness over its occurrence that does not often belong to the death of children, or at least had not marked the departure of his two stout little brothers. Scarlet-fever and croup and measles are such every-day, red-winged, mottled angels, that no one is appalled at their presence; they take off the little sufferer in such vigorous fashion, clutch him with so hearty a grip, that one is compelled to open the door, let them out, and feel relieved ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XI., February, 1863, No. LXIV. • Various


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