Hypertext Webster Gateway: "charbon"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Malignant \Ma*lig"nant\, a. [L. malignans, -antis, p. pr. of
malignare, malignari, to do or make maliciously. See
{Malign}, and cf. {Benignant}.]
1. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress;
actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently
inimical; bent on evil; malicious.

A malignant and a turbaned Turk. --Shak.

2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
``Malignant care.'' --Macaulay.

Some malignant power upon my life. --Shak.

Something deleterious and malignant as his touch.
--Hawthorne.

3. (Med.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal
issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.

{Malignant pustule} (Med.), a very contagious disease,
transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the
formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a
vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks
down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound
exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also {charbon}, and
sometimes, improperly, {anthrax}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Charbon \Char"bon\, n. [F., coal, charbon.]
1. (Far.) A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity
of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or
mark has become obliterated.

2. A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and
cattle. See {Maligmant pustule}.

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