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ROARING. A disease among horses occasioned by the circumstance of the neck of the windpipe being too narrow for accelerated respiration; the disorder is frequently produced by sore throat or other topical inflammation.
2. A horse affected with this malady is rendered less serviceable, and he is therefore unsound. 2 Stark. R. 81; S. C. 3 Eng. Com. Law Rep. 255; 2 Camp. R. 523.

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He responded, rushing against the bars and roaring back at me his impotent wrath.

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Then she came out again, and went away with her mate to seek food, and soon we heard them roaring in the distance.

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The bullet-head crumpled forward upon its flaccid neck against the great hairy chest--the roaring and the shrieking ceased.

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The roaring of the beasts that had discovered us, together with the report of my rifle, had set the balance of the fierce inmates of the palace into the most frightful uproar I have ever heard.

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The leading canoe had glided safely among the turbulent and roaring surges, but in following it, Mr.

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Cold and cheerless, the wind beating on our faces, the white seas roaring by, we struggled through the day.