Cautery; a cauterizing instrument or agent. Frequently with the. See also to give the fire at phrases 2c(c). Cf. fire, v.1 9. Farriery in later use…

The action or fact of disagreeing or being out of harmony; disagreement, discordance; dissonance; an instance of this.

Treatment of an animal using a rowel (rowel, n. 8); the operation of inserting a rowel.

The feeding of horses on cut green fodder, so as to cause purgation. Obsolete.

Farriery. The action of removing excrement from a constipated horse by scraping with the hand. Cf. rake, v.2 8. Obsolete.

The operation of rowelling. Obsolete. rare.

Farriery. Cauterization; spec. treatment of a horse for lameness by cauterization of the affected leg or legs. Cf. fire, v.1 9.

The use of boiling or hot liquid in the preparation of the carcasses of animals, etc. for food; the use of hot lotions (in farriery); the partial…

Veterinary Medicine. The administration of medicine in the form of a ball (ball, n.1 10). Frequently (and in earliest use) attributive: see…