Definition of hoof

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Hoof (n.) The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc..

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Exungulate :: Exungulate (v. t.) To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc..
Pegasus :: Pegasus (n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration..
Ungula :: Ungula (n.) A hoof, claw, or talon..
Hippocrene :: Hippocrene (n.) A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration..
Hoofbound :: Hoofbound (a.) Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness..
Solipedous :: Solipedous (a.) Having single hoofs.
Behoove :: Behoove (n.) Advantage; behoof.
Cloven-footed :: Cloven-footed (a.) Alt. of Cloven-hoofe.
Pliohippus :: Pliohippus (n.) An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse..
Unguligrade :: Unguligrade (a.) Having, or walking on, hoofs..
Horseshoe :: Horseshoe (n.) A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof..
Cloven-hoofed :: Cloven-hoofed (a.) Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox..
Bar :: Bar (n.) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole..
Hoof :: Hoof (n.) The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc..
Hyracoidea :: Hyracoidea (n. pl.) An order of small hoofed mammals, comprising the single living genus Hyrax..
Quadrisulcate :: Quadrisulcate (a.) Having four hoofs; as, a quadrisulcate foot; a quadrisulcate animal..
Multungulate :: Multungulate (a.) Having many hoofs.
Pumiced :: Pumiced (a.) Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot..
Whitlow :: Whitlow (a.) An inflammatory disease of the feet. It occurs round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected..
Toe :: Toe (n.) The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal.
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