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One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department.

The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse.

One who takes a repast. [Obs.]

A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. Branchial clefts. See under Branchial.

The small pastern bone of the horse and allied animals.

A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.

e horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.

t part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint.

An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype. Mat grass. (Bot.) (a) A low, tufted, European grass (Nardus stricta). (b) Same as Matweed. -- Mat rush (Bot.), a kind of rush (Scirpus lacustris) used in England for making m…

An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. J. H. Walsh.

nvited guest coming with one who is invited. [A Latinism] Nares. I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement. Massinger. Shadow of death, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death. Ps. xxiii. 4.

ntervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.

Same as Paster, 2. [Political Cant, U.S.]