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Giraffe :: Giraffe (n.) An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs..

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..

Unguiculata :: Unguiculata (n. pl.) An extensive division of Mammalia including those having claws or nails, as distinguished from the hoofed animals (Ungulata)..

Exungulate :: Exungulate (v. t.) To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc..

Whole-hoofed :: Whole-hoofed (a.) Having an undivided hoof, as the horse..

Ungulate :: Ungulate (a.) Shaped like a hoof.

Periople :: Periople (n.) The external smooth horny layer of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.

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..

Stopping-out :: Stopping (n.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.

Cloven-footed :: Cloven-footed (a.) Alt. of Cloven-hoofe.

Ungulate :: Ungulate (n.) Any hoofed quadruped; one of the Ungulata.

Whitlow :: Whitlow (a.) An inflammatory disease of the feet. It occurs round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected..

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.

Suburb :: Subungual (a.) Under the nail or hoof.

Hoof :: Hoof (v. i.) To be on a tramp; to foot.

Coronamen :: Coronamen (n.) The upper margin of a hoof; a coronet.

Hoofed :: Hoofed (a.) Furnished with hoofs.

Ungual :: Ungual (a.) Having a nail, claw, or hoof attached; -- said of certain bones of the feet..

Unguligrade :: Unguligrade (a.) Having, or walking on, hoofs..

Horse :: Horse (n.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all

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