Usually means: Viral disease affecting many animals.
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  1. distemper: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. distemper, distemper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. distemper, distemper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. distemper: Collins English Dictionary
  5. distemper: Vocabulary.com
  6. Distemper, distemper: Wordnik
  7. distemper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. distemper: Wiktionary
  9. distemper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. distemper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. distemper: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. distemper: Dictionary.com
  13. distemper: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Distemper (album), Distemper (band), Distemper (disambiguation), Distemper (paint), Distemper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Distemper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. distemper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. distemper: Rhymezone
  18. Distemper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. distemper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. distemper: Free Dictionary
  21. distemper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. distemper: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. distemper: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  3. DISTEMPER: Glossary of Art Terms

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. distemper: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. distemper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. distemper: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Distemper, Distemper, Distemper: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

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  1. distemper: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
noun:  (archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.
noun:  A glue-based paint.
noun:  (countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint.
verb:  To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
verb:  To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
verb:  To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
verb:  To intoxicate.
verb:  To paint using distemper.
verb:  To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.

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