Also 7 -core, 8 antecor, -ticour (antocow). [f. ANTI- + L. cor heart.] A disease amongst horses and cattle. (See quot.)
1607. Topsell, Four-footed Beasts (1673), 335. An Anticor cometh of superfluity of evill bloud or spirit in the arteries, and also of inflamation in the liver.
1706. Phillips, Antocow (among Farriers) a round Swelling about half as big as one’s Fist, which breaks out in the Breast of a Horse, over against the Heart. [So in Bailey, 1721–1800.]
1737. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1756), I. xxii. 192. Of the Anticor. This Disease in Horses is called in French, Anticœur, on Account of its being over against the Heart, or in the Breast.
1783. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (ed. Morell), s.v., The anticor [in horses], Febris pestilens, phlegmone circa pectus stipata.
