In plural. A disorder characterized by the formation of sores on the feet and legs of horses (perhaps mud fever). Obsolete.

A skin lesion or disease affecting the heels of the horse.

Defective, not firm or solid. (see quots.).

Farriery. A disease in a horse's foot (see gravel, v. 5). Obsolete.

Inflammation of the laminar structures of a horse's foot, resulting usually from overwork; a similar disease in dogs.

Disease of the foot in a person or animal; esp. (a) mud fever (of horses); (b) bovine footrot.

Infection, ulceration, or sinus formation involving the coronet or coronary band of a horse's leg; an instance of this.

Farriery. A wound in the sole of a horse's foot, esp. one made by a nail of a shoe. In later use more fully nail prick.

= sense 3 (cf. twitter-bone, n.).

An ulcer or sore of the coronet of a horse's foot, esp. one associated with contracted heels; (also) a sore of the foot in cattle.

plural. A disease of horses, in which the pastern appears as if scratched; = cratches, cratch, n.2 2.

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…

In horses' feet: A bruise of the sensitive parts of the heel, in the angle between the bars and the wall of the hoof, caused by the pressure of the…

‘A swelling in the hollow of the pastern of a horse’ (Cotgrave).

= frog, n.2 Also (more fully running frush) a disease which attacks this part of a horse's foot; thrush.

A sore or wound on a horse's foot; see quots.

a weakness in a horse's feet, the result of a chill, the pinching of a shoe, etc.

A line, groove, furrow or the like formed by the abutting edges of two parts of a thing; an… Farriery = false quarter n. at false, adj. 7a.

With plural agreement. = scratches, scratch, n.1 2a.

transferred. A sore on a horse's foot (see crepance, n. and cf. 1888 at kiby, adj.). ? Obsolete.

Farriery. A bruise or wound of the coronet of a horse's foot, caused by setting one foot upon the other, or by over-reaching.

A disease which attacks the heels of a horse (see quot. 1872).

Farriery. = gravelling, n. 2. Obsolete.

A purulent fistula at the coronet of a horse's foot; a quittor (quittor, n. 3). Cf. quittor bone n. at quittor, n. compounds.

spec. A crack of the skin, a chap; a disease of the feet of horses.

Veterinary Medicine. Suppurative inflammation of the cartilage of the third phalanx of a horse's foot, usually with a discharging fistula at the…

(See quot.)

A disease in a horse's foot (see quots.).

cf. hoof-bound, adj. n.

A wen-like swelling on the heel of a horse's hock, or on the point of the elbow.

A purulent fistula at the coronet of a horse's foot; a quittor (quittor, n. 3). Cf. twitter-bone, n.

Chronic infection and necrosis of the horn-producing tissues of a horse's foot, often involving the sole and hoof wall; an instance of this.

= sense 3.

(a) a fissure in a horse's hoof; (without a and plural) a condition so characterized; (b) a crack in the human foot caused by walking on hot sandy…

In the horse, An inflammation of the lower surface of the frog of the hoof, accompanied with a fetid discharge. Cf. frush, n.2

= grease, n. 3 ? Obsolete.

a bony outgrowth or swelling located at the top of a horse's hoof, near the pastern; cf. ringbone, n. 2.

a condition affecting the feet of horses and donkeys in which the inner wall of the hoof becomes separated from the sole, and softened and crumbly…

In horses: ossification of the lateral cartilages in the foot; (also) a cartilage so ossified.

(esp. in horses): see scratch, n.1 2a, grease, n. 3.

Veterinary Medicine. Dermatitis of the feet and lower legs of horses kept in muddy conditions, usually caused by the bacterium Dermatophilus congol…

= navicular disease n. at compounds.

Inflammation of the coronary substance of the hoof of a horse.

a sand-crack in the front of the hoof.

A condition in draughthorses in which the hoof is large and very sloping, with a flat sole and large prominent frog.