herd-bookn.
A book containing the pedigree and other particulars of a breed of cattle or pigs: corresponding to the stud-book for horses, and the flock-book for sheep.
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herd-book1822
1822 G. Coates (title) The General Short-Horned Herd-Book, containing the Pedigrees of Short-Horned Bulls, Cows, etc. of the Improved Durham Breed.
1865 H. H. Dixon Field & Fern: South 86 In 1822, the very year that England began her Shorthorn Herd-Book.
1881 J. P. Sheldon Dairy Farming 3/1 Long and respectable pedigrees in their owners' herd-books.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- attoxicated
- attract
- attractability
- attractable
- attractableness
- at first gooff
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- at five etc years' purchase
- at five six years' purchase
- at five ten years' purchase
- at five years' purchase
- at float
- at foils
- at foot
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- at formerly also for free cost
- at formerly also in a gallop
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- at formerly also on a gallop
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- at formerly also on sight
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