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The condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness of an excuse or an argument.

Lameness. [R.] Johnson.

the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness. James Law. Curb bit, a stiff bit having branches by which a leverage is obtained upon the jaws of horse. Knight. -- Curb pins (Horology), the pins on the regulator which restrain the hairspring. -- Curb plate (Arch.),…

A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.

The act of limping; lameness.

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

To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.

The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.

ck 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 cusk (Zoöl.), any ophidi…

hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed. Harbaugh. Bog spavin, a soft swelling produced by distention of the capsular ligament of the hock; -- called also blood spavin. -- Bone spavin, sp…

The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist. Sprain fracture (Med.), the separation of a tendon from its point of insertion, with the detachment of a shell of bone to which the tendon is attached.

A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt. Shak.