General combinations: chiefly parasynthetic, as broken-ended, broken-footed, broken-fortuned, broken-handed, broken-headed, broken-hipped, brokenbr…

Of a horse: lame; spec. suffering from founder (founder, n.5 1).

Of a horse: Affected with founder; lamed.

Of a horse's foot: having a dropped sole (and typically also a rough and porous hoof wall, likened to pumice). Also: †designating a shoe made for…

Affected with a painful dryness and contraction of the hoof; having the shoe put on too tight, causing the horse to go lame. Also n. as a name of…

Hoof-bound (as a horse).

Veterinary Medicine. Of a horse's foot: abnormally narrowed or contracted. Also with in. Cf. wire, v. 4 and wire heel n. at wire, n.1 compounds 2a…

In various transferred and figurative senses. Perplexed, puzzled.

affected with ‘grease’ (sense 3).

Of a horse: Affected with the ‘grease’.

Hoof-bound.

Of a horse: Affected with ‘grease’.

Farriery. Affected with the disease known as ‘the scratches’; see scratch, n.1 2. Obsolete.

Of a horse: having a nail driven into the foot.

Of a horse: affected by founder (laminitis); = foundered, adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.

Of a horse: affected with a quittor (fistulous coronet). Cf. twitter-bone, n.

Of a horse: affected with quittor (quittor, n. 3).

Pertaining to or affected with thrush (sense 2).