How To Use Spavin In A Sentence
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But the hock may be "spavined," while to all outward observation it still retains its perfect form.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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Bog spavins can be large and highly visible, and make horse-owners very nervous, but they're just lumps - not lamenesses.
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_spavin_, during the last hunting season, he was sold for a __machiner; but being since fired and turned out, he had come up all right, and was now, according to coachee's disinterested opinion, one of the best hunters in the kingdom.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
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There may seem to be a lot of men supporting you Iain but some of them will be Lib Dems are better referred to as spavined hermaphrodites not knowing which way to turn.
The Male Dominated Blogosphere: Was Melissa Kite Right?
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This condition involves the heavy gluteal muscles and may occur as a complication of azoturia, or a lameness of the hind limb that is usually due to a spavin.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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Among all the sports medicine problems faced by the horse, bone spavin is probably the most common.
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The diseases which are found to be hereditary in horses are scrofula, rheumatism, rickets, chronic cough, roaring, ophthalmia or inflammation of the eye, -- grease or scratches, bone spavin, curb, &c.
The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals
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The dilatation of this articular synovial sac is what is denominated bog spavin, the term thoroughpin being applied to the dilatation of the tendinous capsule.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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[FOOTNOTE 87: spavined crowbait -- a lame, emaciated horse (from spavin, an inflammation of the tarsal or ankle joint of a horse, causing lameness, and an appearance that causes carrion birds to think a meal is in the offing)] "A very sad --" began Judge Menefee, but his remark was curtailed by a higher authority.
Heart of the West [Annotated]
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This past summer, a geezer friend of mine was railing at the current generation of hunters who roost in trees like so many spavined turkeys and rarely walk anywhere.
Uncategorized Blog Posts
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Bone spavins, bogs, thoroughpins, and weakness are common to sickle hocks.
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-- Where a visible exostosis exists, the presence of spavin is easily detected, yet exostoses that extend over large areas may constitute cause for serious trouble and still be difficult of detection.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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Although bone spavin usually causes lameness, this may be obscured if the lesions are bilateral.
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Joe Biden: I had thought of him as merely one more spavined Senate hack.
David E.
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There was brought to the door at dawn for Richard a jibbing, backing pony, with vicious eyes, and for me a mangy horse like a knifeboard, spavined, with weak legs, and very aged, but nevertheless showing signs of “blood.”
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
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Effie is spavined, Addie is knock-kneed and stringhalt, and Jessie, the only one who showed her stockings, has legs without calves, as classic in their outlines as the curves of a broom handle.
So Sue Me - The Panda's Thumb
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The "spavin test" is of value as a diagnostic measure when it is employed with other means of examination, though reaction to this test is seen in some cases in old "crampy" horses that have experienced hard service.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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-- A spavin is a chronic inflammation of the articular faces of the hock bones, ligaments and synovial membranes.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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Not the spavined buffoons of the Wodehousian imagination, but the revenge-crazed thugs of the century following the Restoration.
Unseen Swells: Why rock stars should become aristocrats
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A third perceived he had a windgall, and would bid no money; a fourth knew by his eye that he had the botts; a fifth wondered what a plague I could do at the fair with a blind, spavined, galled hack, that was only fit to be cut up for a dog-kennel.
The Vicar of Wakefield
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A bony enlargement does not always accompany the lameness, and a spavin may be present without the horse going noticeably lame.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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Five young hoggs, two red kyne, one red heifer two years old, one bay gelding lame of spavins, one old grey mare having a mare colt.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)
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Horses three or four years of age if given work that favors hock strain, such as excavating cellars, may develop a spavin.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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The above is recommended in outside callous, such as spavin, ringbone, curbs, windgalls, etc. etc.
The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses
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There are two or three-other old war-horses - no more 'spavined' than you, I might add - former Bordermen like you, who have pretty much the same attitudes.
Magic's Price
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Right there is where my lode of information turns to an old spavined crowbait [87], and folds its wings, for I've pumped it dry.
Heart of the West [Annotated]
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Eesa and Girhi, who are all infantry: a village seldom contains more than six or eight, and the lowest value would be ten cows or twenty Tobes. 27 Careful of his beast when at rest, the Somali Bedouin in the saddle is rough and cruel: whatever beauty the animal may possess in youth, completely disappears before the fifth year, and few are without spavin, or sprained back-sinews.
First footsteps in East Africa
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Bog spavin is often present in case of thoroughpin but the two conditions are separate and distinct excepting in that both may occur simultaneously and as the result of the same cause.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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If the owner of a "spavined" horse really succeeds in removing the lameness, he has accomplished all that he is justified in hoping for; beyond this let him be well persuaded that a "cure" is impossible.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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Take of cantharides 2 oz., strong mercurial ointment 4 oz., oil of turpentine 4 oz., iodine 3 oz., mix all with a sufficiency of lard to make a thin ointment; apply to the spavin only once a day until it bursts; then oil it with sweet oil until healed.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
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A spavin is one of the unsoundnesses of horses that may be transmitted to the offspring.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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-- Bog spavin is an extensive distention of the capular ligament of the hock-joint by synovia (Fig. 48).
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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Thus it seems that subjects of rather faulty conformation, animals having lymphatic temperaments and the coarse-bred types, are prone to synovial disturbances such as thoroughpin, bog spavin, etc., sometimes having both legs affected.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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Just last Wednesday evening I was seeing to a horse over on Atlantic—a case of bog spavin—and as chance would have it, a fire broke out in one of the warehouses, and there he was, already on the scene, furiously scribbling notes.
Firehorse
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Like osteoarthritis in people, the cause of spavin is not very well understood.
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Bone spavin is arthritis between the little joints in the hocks, which don't have much movement anyways.
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Can these old, spavined pack mules of songs live while they're carrying the freight, the weight, of the history of this country?
GRACED LAND
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This puts more stress on the hocks and the outside of the legs; bog spavins and thoroughpins can result.
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Only you layer the Companions; top is a pair of glossy matched bays, under that is what any other mage will think is the reality, an illusion of a pair of nasty, old, spavined geldings.
Widows and Orphans
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We left the car, walked across the pebbled dirt, climbed the spavined wooden stairs to the platform and looked around.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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What they want is a winged chariot pulled by Pegasus; what they have pushed through Congress is a rubbish cart pulled by a spavined donkey — but at winged-chariot prices.
Superversive: A digression
