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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MANGE, n. The scab or itch in cattle, dogs and other beasts.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people)

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: alteration of Middle English manjewe, from Anglo-French manjue, from manger to eat Date: 1540 any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite — compare sarcoptic mange

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a skin disease in hairy and woolly animals, caused by an arachnid parasite and occasionally communicated to man. Etymology: ME mangie, maniewe f. OF manjue, mangeue itch f. mangier manju- eat f. L manducare chew

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mange Mange, n. [See Mangy.] (Vet.) The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts. Mange insect (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small parasitic mites, which burrow in the skin of cattle. horses, dogs, and other animals, causing the mange. The mange insect of the horse (Psoroptes, or Dermatodectes, equi), and that of cattle (Symbiotes, or Dermatophagys, bovis) are the most important species. See Acarina.

Moby Thesaurus

Texas fever, anthrax, aphthous fever, bighead, black quarter, blackleg, blackwater, blind staggers, bloody flux, broken wind, cattle plague, charbon, distemper, foot-and-mouth disease, gapes, glanders, heaves, hog cholera, hoof-and-mouth disease, hydrophobia, liver rot, loco, loco disease, locoism, mad staggers, malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule, megrims, milzbrand, paratuberculosis, pip, pseudotuberculosis, quarter evil, rabies, rinderpest, rot, scabies, sheep rot, splenic fever, staggers, stringhalt, swine dysentery