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A hoofed animal; a beast. Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind. Ex. x. 26.

Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness.

Furnished with hoofs. Grew.

Destitute of hoofs.

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

Advantage; profit; benefit; interest; use. No mean recompense it brings To your behoof. Milton.

Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.

Ground ivy; alehoof.

Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.

A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.

re legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. -- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot. -- To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. -- To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. -- To beat up, to attack suddenly; to al…

Advantage; behoof. [Obs.] It shall not be to his behoove. Gower.

Cloven; said of a foot or hoof.

tar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush. Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs. Shak.

the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.

r riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long time without drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The…

e food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deut. xxiv. 6.

To give out a clang; to resound. "Clanging hoofs." Tennyson.

To pert or open naturally; to divide. Every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws. Deut. xiv. 6.