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croup 1 [kroop] Noun a throat disease of children, with a hoarse cough and laboured breathing [Middle English: to cry hoarsely, probably imitative] croup 2 [kroop] Noun the hindquarters of a horse [Old French croupe]
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Young Mary Joe never saw anybody with croup and Mrs. did not think it was croup till late on Tuesday night, and all that Medical aid could prescribe was done, but the Dr. Percy Northumberland Driscoll, brother to the judge, and younger than he by five years, was a married man, and had had children around his hearthstone; but they were attacked in detail by measles, croup, and scarlet fever, and this had given the doctor a chance with his effective antediluvian methods; so the cradles were empty. |
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