▪ I. spurred, a.
(spɜːd)
[f. spur n.1]
1. Wearing or provided with a spur or spurs: a. In pred. use, chiefly in the phr. booted (or † hosed) and spurred.
| c 1400 Brut cc. 227 In maner of an Erl, worthely arraied,..and hosede and spored. c 1450 Contin. Brut 561 Þe Duyk of Burgeyn..was..slayne,..and after, put in-to a pitte, botit and spurret. 1632 Massinger City Madam ii. ii, May the Great Fiend, booted & spurr'd,..Ride headlong down her throat. 1668 H. More Div. Dial. i. xxii. (1713) 47, I, and that booted and spurred too. 1678–1833 [see booted ppl. a. 1 b]. 1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 296/2 Three legs of man in armour,..garnished and spurred. 1869 Freeman Norm. Conq. (1875) III. 138 Others came forth on foot, booted and spurred. |
b. In attrib. use.
| 1688 J. Grubb Brit. Heroes vii, Castor the flame of fiery steed With well spur'd boots took down. 1842 Lytton Zanoni vii. xv, With his spurred heels on the table. 1900 Times 29 Jan. 10/3 In their..riding knickers, with brown..riding leggings, spurred boots [etc.]. |
c. spurred groat: (see quot.).
| a 1773 Snelling View Silver Coin Scot. (1774) 6 From the mullet or spur in the quarters of the cross of this [David Bruce, 1329] and the two following kings, they were after⁓wards called Spurred Groats. |
2. Furnished with sharp and hard spikes, claws, or the like.
| 1611 Cotgr., Ergoté, spurred, or hauing spurres. 1648 Hexham ii, Als een Haen gespoort, Spurred as a Cock. 1803 Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 563 Subargenteous Holocentrus, with brownish back, large scales, and spurred gill-covers. 1884 St. James's Gaz. 27 Nov. 5/2 Spurred hens are often excellent hens. |
b. In specific names, as spurred centropyx, spurred chameleon, spurred lapwing, spurred towhee bunting, spurred tree frog.
| 1831 Griffith tr. Cuvier IX. Syn. 31 Spurred Centropyx, Teius Calcaratus. c 1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 365 The Spurred Tree Frog has a flat, depressed triangular head. 1884 Coues N. Amer. Birds 397 Pipilo maculatus megalonyx, Spurred Towhee Bunting. 1887 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. s.v., Spurred-chameleon, Chameleon calcarifer, from the country round Aden. 1891 Cent. Dict. s.v. Spur-winged, Represented in South Africa by the black-backed spurred lapwing, Hoplopterus speciosus. |
3. Of rye, etc.: Affected with ergot or spur.
| 1763 Mills Pract. Husb. II. 405 When a spurred grain is broken. 1822–7 Good Study Med. (1829) V. 54 Spurred rye, or rye vitiated by being infested with the clavis or ergot, a parasitic plant. 1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 51/1 On breaking a spurred seed you find within it a matter of a dull white colour, adhering to the violet skin which surrounds it. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 120 Amongst endemic affections may be included ergotism from the use of spurred rye as food. |
4. Bot. Of the nature of, provided with, a spur or calcar; calcarate.
| 1824 R. K. Greville Flora Edin. p. xlviii, A prominent or spurred nectary at the base. 1849 Craig, Spurred valerian, a plant belonging to the genus Centranthus. 1861 Bentley Man. Bot. 512 Sepals more or less valvate in æstivation, upper one spurred. |
5. Of ships: Provided with a beak or ram.
| 1805 Duckworth in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1846) VII. 44 The Admiralty..giving me a spurred and doubled ship, the Formidable, yesterday out of dock. |
▪ II. spurred, ppl. a.
(spɜːd)
[f. spur v.1]
Pricked or urged on with a spur or spurs. Also fig.
| 1868 Heavysege Jezebel i. 258 Thine utmost speed will lag behind The spurred impatience whereon rides my soul. 1898 M. Hewlett Forest Lovers xxviii, Prosper was abroad on a spurred horse. |