crown scabn.
/ˈkraʊn skab/, U.S. /ˈkraʊn ˌskæb/ Veterinary Medicine. Now rare or disused.
Infection, ulceration, or sinus formation involving the coronet or coronary band of a horse's leg; an instance of this.Quittor (quittor n. 3) and mud fever are probably among the conditions called by this name.In quot. 1631 figurative.
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pains1440
mellitc1465
false quarter1523
gravelling?1523
founder1547
foundering1548
foot evil1562
crown scab1566
prick1566
quittor bone1566
moltlong1587
scratches1591
hoof-bound1598
corn1600
javar1600
frush1607
crepance1610
fretishing1610
seam1610
scratchets1611
kibe1639
tread1661
grease1674
gravel1675
twitter-bone1688
cleft1694
quittor1703
bleymes1725
crescent1725
hoof-binding1728
capelet1731
twitter1745
canker1753
grease-heels1753
sand-crack1753
thrush1753
greasing1756
bony hoof1765
seedy toe1829
side bone1840
cracked heel1850
mud fever1872
navicular1888
coronitis1890
toe-crack1891
flat-foot1894
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 98v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Of the Crowne scabbe...This is a kind of filthy and stinking scabbe, breeding round about the feete vpon the cronettes.
1609 S. Rowlands Knave of Clubbes 44 For any Iade he phisicke had..Crowne-scab, and quitter-bone.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. v. 27 in Wks. II Take off her shooes; body o' me, she has the Mallanders, the scratches, the crowne scabbe, and the quitter bone, i' the tother legge.
1673 R. Almond Eng. Horsman iii. 19 The Crownet of the hoof is sound, if the hair be smooth and close, and the flesh even; but if the flesh rise, the skin mangy, and the hair staring, you may then expect a Ring bone, a Crown scab, or something every whit as bad.
1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory iii. xiv. 276 Recommended to cure the Crown-Scab, being applied Plaster-wise all round the Coronet.
1792 W. Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman 122/2 That there are a great many humours in the coronet, that may occasion the crown-scab, and other sores.
1828 J. Ware Pocket Farrier 67 The Crown Scab is only a species of the scratches, and is brought on in the same way, to wit: by founders, filthy stables, &c.
1878 Spirit of Times 19 Jan. 680 (advt.) Merchant's Gargling Oil..is good for..Crownscab.
1900 Vet. Jrnl. 2 293 I recognised the disease as a pustular eruption, termed Impetigo labialis et coronalis, or what Professor Dick called ‘Crown scab’, and due to the wetness and rankness of the grass upon which the animals were pastured.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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