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An extinct genus of horses from the Pliocene deposits. Each foot had a single toe (or hoof), as in the common horse.

Pertaining to, or composing, the layer of tissue, made up of laminæ, beneath a horse's hoof.

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.

Having four hoofs; as, a quadrisulcate foot; a quadrisulcate animal.

Sand crack (Far.), a crack extending downward from the coronet, in the wall of a horse's hoof, which often causes lameness. -- Sand cricket (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large terrestrial crickets of the genus Stenophelmatus and allied genera, native of the sandy plains of the Western United States. -- Sand…

n which a cavity filled with horn powder is formed between the laminæ and the wall of the hoof.

A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.

A mammal having a single hoof on each foot, as the horses and asses; a solidungulate. [Written also solipede.] The solipeds, or firm-hoofed animals, as horses, asses, and mules, etc., -- they are, also, in mighty number. Sir T. Browne.

Having single hoofs.

gan wax as stark as marble stone. Spenser. Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. Shak. The north is not so stark and cold. B. Jonson.

A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist. Youatt.

Under the nail or hoof.

The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal.

Of or pertaining to a nail, claw, talon, or hoof, or resembling one.

ive division of Mammalia including those having claws or nails, as distinguished from the hoofed animals (Ungulata).

The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.

A hoof, claw, or talon.

Of or pertaining to a hoof, claw, or talon; ungual.

An extensive group of mammals including all those that have hoofs. It comprises the Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla.

Shaped like a hoof.