pumiced, ppl. a.
(ˈpʌmɪst)
[f. prec. vb. + -ed1.]
1. Rubbed smooth with pumice.
| 1552 Huloet, Pomaysed, pumigatus. 1846 Landor Imag. Conv., Diogenes & Plato Wks. I. 456/1 They who have pumiced faces and perfumed hair. |
2. Applied to a horse's hoof that has become spongy on account of disease. Hence transf. of a horse-shoe adapted to such a hoof.
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 324/2 A flat or pomised shooe, having one side thick and the other thin,..is used for flat and pomised Hoofs. 1828 Sporting Mag. XXII. 349 With well-bred hunters, pumiced feet are, nineteen times in twenty, the effect of fever. 1861 Walsh & Lupton Horse xxx. (1877) 542 The sole..is always either flatter than natural, or absolutely convex, and its horn is brittle and spongy, constituting what is termed the ‘pumiced foot’. |