ROARIN

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.