Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no hoof or hoofs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of hoofs.
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- adjective Without
hooves .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On her arrival, my preceptor, Mr. Taylor, was immediately sent for, who found her, as I have before stated, with the off fore-foot hoofless.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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The transitory and singularly small and simple denticle in the horse exemplifies the rudiment of an ancestral structure in the same degree as do the hoofless splint-bones; just as the spurious hoofs dangling therefrom in hipparion are retained rudiments of the functionally developed lateral hoofs in the broader foot of palæotherium.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909
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The deer never returned the hoofs to the rabbit, and hoofless the rabbit has remained to this day.
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"The reptiles have left him as hoofless as a beaver!"
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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