spavined, a.
(ˈspævɪnd)
Also 5 spaueyned, 7 spavend.
[f. spavin n.1]
Of horses, etc.: Affected with spavin; having a spavin. Also absol. (of persons).
| c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. civ. (1869) 114 With whiche [garments] queyntisen hem as wel the halte, the boistouse, the spaueyned, the blynde, the embosed, the maymed and oothere. 1684 Lond. Gaz. No. 1965/4 A brown bay Gelding,..a little Spavend of his near Leg behind. 1727 Somerville Bald Batchelor Poems (1810) 215/2 A mare,..Though she be spavin'd, old, and blind, With founder'd feet, and broken wind. 1788 J. May Jrnl. & Lett. (1873) 19, I observed my horse to be lame... Some said he was hipped, others spavined. 1818 Scott Rob Roy xix, He..made a present to Andrew of a broken-winded and spavined pony. 1867 Trollope Chron. Barset xiii, [He] had ridden over..on a poor spavined brute belonging to the bishop's stable. |
b. fig. Lame, halting, maimed, etc.
| 1647 N. Ward Simp. Cobbler 37 If any have a minde to ride poste, he will helpe them with a fresh spavin'd Opinion at every Stage. 1822 Byron Vis. Judgm. xci, Ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd Into recitative. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. II. ix. 93 After a diversified series of spavined efforts, the mystical number forms its triangle at the table. 1863 Sat. Rev. 200 We turn our spavined horses out to grass..; we are sadly in need of some analogous arrangement for spavined Christians. |