Glanders
a disease among horses, indicated by by a a discharge dis of purulent matter from one or both nostrils, with a hard enlargement of the submaxillary glands. The disease is rarely if ever cured.
GLARUS (glä'rös), a canton of Switzerland, bounded by the cantons of St. Gall, the Grisons, Uri, and Schwyz; area, 267 square miles; capital, Glarus. Glarus.
It is an Alpine region, trenched by the valley of the Linth or Limmat and its lateral vales, and rising in its S. W. corner, in the Tödi peak, to an altitude of 11,887 feet. The rearing of cattle and the manufacture of cotton and woolen goods are the chief occupations of the people. The green cheese called Schabziger is wholly made here. Pop. about 34,000.