  FALLOW DEER—are the species of Deer bred in parks for the production of venison, as well for the private use of the great and opulent, as for sale. The male is called A BUCK; the female, a DOE; the offspring of both, A FAWN; and they vary some degrees in colour, but consist principally of a dark dingy brown, inclining to black, or a mottled sandy dun. The BUCK is furnished with horns, which he sheds yearly: the DOE has no such weapons for self-defence. The BUCK sheds his horns from the middle of April through the first weeks of May, which are in part regenerated by the month of September. The DOE generally produces her young in the last week of May, or during the two first of June. The season for BUCK VENISON commences in July, and goes out about Michaelmas; when DOE VENISON comes in, and continues till January. The time in which the act of procreation is carried on (called rutting time) commences at the latter end of August, and continues during the greater part of September. The skins of both buck and doe are manufactured into the article of leather for breeches, so Buck hunting was formerly a much more frequent sport than at present; and a dwarf kind of stag-hound (called buck-hounds) were kept for the purpose. The uncertainty and short duration of the chase, has, however, at length, nearly obliterated the practice, as there is hardly such a thing in the kingdom as a pack kept solely for the purpose of hunting FALLOW DEER. FALLOW LAND—is land so called when under no immediate cultivation, but ploughed up, and laid at rest, to acquire, from its exposure to the elements, additional strength for the production of future crops. Of these there are both summer and winter fallows; upon the last of which, if dry, HARES may generally be found in the months of January, February, and March, if there are any to be seen in the country. FALCONER.—A FALCONER, whose province it was to tame, manage, and look after FALCONS, and other hawks, was formerly as great and conspicuous a character as the most celebrated HUNTSMAN FALSE QUARTER—is a defect in the hoof of a horse, originally sustained by some injury, producing a destruction of parts; as quittor, canker, wounds, treads, bruises, or such formation of matter, by which a part of the hoof has been unavoidably destroyed, or necessarily taken away. In the regeneration of parts, the incarnation (from the rigid and horny nature of the hoof) is irregular and imperfect, forming a sort of cleft (or artificial union) with the sound part upon the surface, productive of a sensible weakness underneath. This imperfect and defective junction renders such quarter, as is it called, inadequate to the weight it is destined to bear; in which case, much judgment is required, and may be exerted, in the palliation, as perfect cure is not to be expected. Care must be taken in forming the shoe to relieve the tender part from pressure, by hollowing it at that particular spot, and letting the bearing be fixed entirely upon the sound parts. By constant attention in reducing the prominent edges of the irregular projection with the fine side of the RASP, and a few occasional FAMILY.—See Black Legs and Betting. FARCY,—except the GLANDERS, is the most unfortunate and destructive disease to which the horse is subject. It is infectious, and may be communicated from one horse to another, or to the whole stable, where many stand together. As it frequently attacks different subjects in a different way, (according to the state and condition of the horse at the time of attack,) so it has afforded opportunity to the fertile and ingenious to extend and define it to various kinds of FARCY, though they are but different shades and gradations of the same disease. The very first traits of this disorder are too distinguishing to be mistaken; although the attack may be made either one way or the other. The subject is, in general, dull, heavy, sluggish, and seemingly oppressed with lassitude and debility, for some days previous to any external symptoms of disease; in a short time after which, small purulent pustules appear, with a sort of seeming eschar upon the apex of each, running along the veins in a kind of continuity, bearing no ill affinity or resemblance to a bunch of grapes a little diversified As the disorder advances to a more inveterate malignity, these pustules burst, the scab or eschar exfoliates, and each becomes a virulent, ill-conditioned ulcer. In many instances the progress is extended with incredible rapidity; and the larger vessels, with their inferior ramifications, are soon universally affected; holding forth a very unpromising prediction of early extrication. A tolerable opinion may be formed of the mildness or threatened severity of the disease by the nature of the attack: if appearances are partial, (that is, attached to any particular spot,) without a speedy extension to different parts of the body, or its extremities, the case may be considered in its then infantine state favourable; and the proper means should not be delayed to counteract its farther contamination of the blood and juices: on the contrary, should a daily increase of the eruption be observed, spreading itself in various directions along the plate-vein, and down the inside of the fore-arm, under the belly, proceeding on both sides the sheath, and down the inside of each thigh, a cure may be considered very distant and uncertain; involving a doubt for prudent deliberation, Experience, and attentive observation, tend to justify an opinion, that when the FARCY makes its first appearance, in the way described, it is then of the species received by infection, and that it has lain dormant some time in the circulation. When it makes its attack upon one particular part, in a previous tumefaction, and subsequent suppuration, (extending no farther than the quarter in which it originates,) it may then be considered a degree of the same disorder, retaining within itself much less virulence than the former, and to have been produced by the morbid state of the blood, and predominant tendency to disease; holding forth a well-founded prospect of CURE, if the case happens to fall into the hands of a judicious and scientific practitioner, who well knows the peculiar property of medicine, upon which alone the success depends. Those writers who have industriously divided and sub-divided the FARCY into so many different diseases, have not noticed a disorder (or rather a complication) partaking of the joint symptoms of both GLANDERS and FARCY; from which circumstance it has, by the best and most experienced practitioners, been denominated, FARCY GLANDERS, and is, in its FARRIER—is the appellation by which a person is known, whose occupation it has hitherto been considered to execute the joint office of furnishing shoes for the PROTECTION of the FEET, and the BODY with MEDICINE for the cure of disease. It has been, from its original formation as a business, the most dangerous, laborious, and least compensated, trade (or profession) of any in the kingdom; consequently none but the most indigent or illiterate (from the eaves of a cottage, or the walls of a workhouse) could be prevailed upon to undertake it. In proof of which, it is a well known fact, FARRIERY.—The ART of FARRIERY consists in the peculiar mode of discovering one disorder from another, by a discrimination of predominant symptoms, and the administration of medicine particularly applicable to that peculiar species of disease. It also comprehends and includes the operations of BLEEDING, CROPPING, DOCKING, NICKING, BLISTERING, FIRING, &c. as well as the cure of wounds, and the long train of ills and accidents to which the horse is incident. This ART (or more The degrading, dirty, and inferior offices to which the manual or operative FARRIER must incessantly become liable in the course of his PRACTICE, renders it readily to be believed, that those whose EDUCATION have been sufficiently liberal to qualify them for a scientific initiation in the STUDY of PHYSIC and ANATOMY, as well as a perfect knowledge of the PROPERTY of MEDICINE, cannot be expected to descend to the rough and laborious business of the FORGE, making, fitting and setting the SHOES, as well as many other equally difficult and hazardous operations to which the subordinate must perpetually become subject in the course of his practice. Hence it is fair to infer, that the liberal education, and acquired polish, of the VETERINARY SURGEON, will so ill accord with the sensations of the SHOEING or black smith, that they will be found incompatible with each other; and, FAWN—is the young of the BUCK and DOE, called a fawn during the first year. A fawn is secreted by the dam in the fern, or long grass, with great care, during the first weeks, and seldom accompanies the mother but by night. In royal PARKS and CHACES, a certain number are annually killed when fawns of about three months old, to prevent the district from being overstocked; this is generally done by COURSING with GREYHOUNDS, which is most excellent sport, the greyhounds being frequently beat. FEATHER.—The centrical division, and different directions, of the surrounding hair in a horse's forehead is so called: they are also frequently seen upon the neck on one or both sides the mane, and sometimes upon the hind quarters, and are considered natural ornaments: their similitude to a feather of the first plumage has given them this appellation. FEATHER WEIGHT,—in the SPORTING WORLD, signifies the lightest weight that can be put upon the back of a HORSE, in whatever MATCH he may be engaged, and totally depends upon the will of the owner; who is not under the necessity of bringing his RIDER to the scale either before or after the race, in an engagement where "feather weight" is particularly expressed. On the contrary, when a horse runs for any PLATE, MATCH, SWEEPSTAKES, or SUBSCRIPTION, at a fixed weight, according to his AGE, HEIGHTH, or QUALIFICATION, his RIDER must be publicly weighed upon the course previous to starting; and at the termination of every heat, if the rider dismounts before his horse is led up to the SCALES, (generally affixed to the starting-post,) or when there, not weighing his proper weight, the HORSE is deemed distanced, and can start no more for the prize in question. FEEDER—is one essential part of a HUNTING ESTABLISHMENT, bearing no ill affinity to the bellows-blower of an ORGANIST; for if the hounds are not well and properly fed, they can never be adequate to the fatigues and difficulties they have to go through. To the FEEDER is submitted the management of the HOUNDS in kennel; but he is always subject to the occasional directions of the HUNTSMAN, whose immediate subordinate he is, and whose dictation he must implicitly obey. He should not only be young, indefatigable, and alert, The department of the FEEDER is of more magnitude than may at first sight be believed. It is his particular business to keep THE KENNEL sweet and clean, and to execute this part of his trust at stated and invariable periods. To boil, prepare, and mix the different kinds of provision for the HOUNDS, according to the regulations of the establishment to which he belongs. When disengaged from the concerns of the kennel, he is expected to assist in the stables; as well as to exercise and dress the spare horses of the HUNTSMAN and WHIPPER-IN, on hunting days when they are absent. In extensive concerns, and large packs, two are required to FEED, in which case the HUNTSMAN (as is most proper) always renders assistance. FEET.—The FEET of HORSES being the very basis of support upon which the safety and expedition of the frame entirely depend, they are entitled to every possible degree of CARE and ATTENTION; more particularly in the WINTER SEASON, when, from neglect, so many ills and inconveniencies are known to arise. The injuries, accidents, and diseases, to which the FEET are constantly As the DEFECTS thus enumerated will be found individually enlarged upon under distinct and separate heads, it becomes only necessary here to lay down such general rules for the regular management of the FEET, as may (properly attended to) prove the means of prudent prevention; not more in respect to the trouble and expence of DISEASE, than of the most mortifying and repentant anxiety. These defects and disquietudes are seldom found but in the stables where the MASTER rarely or ever condescends to obtrude his PERSON and commands upon the tenacious dignity of a self-important groom; the persevering industry of whose careful endeavours, and the pliability and elasticity of whose joints, if properly exerted, would prove the truest and most infallible preventives to SWELLED LEGS and CRACKED HEELS, in preference to all the nostrums ever yet brought into private practice or public use. And those who unfortunately encounter The FEET of different HORSES vary exceedingly in what may be termed the texture or property of the hoof; and this is, in general, regulated by the colour of the LEGS and FEET. There are few horses with white heels, but what have white hoofs also, and these are always more liable to, and susceptible of, DEFECTS and WEAKNESS, than those of an opposite description. The sound, firm, dark-coloured hoof, of the BAY, BROWN, or BLACK horse, is seldom found defective; but those of other coloured horses are the most subject to weak, thin soles, displaying a prominence on each side the frog, occasioned by a too feeble and inadequate resistance to the force of the membranous mass within; feet of which description are also frequently found to have the corresponding concomitant of a brittle hoof, the edges of which are incessantly splitting, and throwing out a constant threatening of SANDCRACKS, with the additional mortification of being subject to inveterate THRUSHES, or an almost constantly diseased or putrefied state of the frog. Feet, so exceedingly different in the nature of their construction, must certainly require as different a mode of treatment, according to such circumstances as happen to exist. To preserve feet perfectly sound, and free from the ills to which they are subject, cleanliness is the leading step. After exercise or use, so soon as the body is drest, the dirt or gravel should be carefully taken from under the shoes with a PICKER, the feet well washed, the legs and heels rubbed dry, the bottom stopped with cow dung, and the hoofs oiled with a brush impregnated with SPERMA CÆTI OIL. Horses left with wet legs and heels, after a severe chace, or long journey, particularly in sharp easterly winds, or during FROST and SNOW, constitute cracks or scratches to a certainty. So severe a rigidity is occasioned in the very texture of the integument, that it becomes partially ruptured or broken in various places, upon being brought into expeditious action; which, with the friction and irritation then occasioned by the sharp particles of gravel in dirty roads, soon produce lacerations of the most painful description. The state of the SHOES should be constantly attended to. Permitted to continue too long upon the FEET, the growth of the hoof brings the shoe forward, rendering it too short at the heel, when it begins to indent, and sinking upon the foot, soon presses upon the outer sole, constituting pain or disquietude FERN—is a plant abounding plentifully in CHACES, BEECHEN WOODS, and COMMONS, and is a seeming diminutive resemblance of our native bulwark the hardy oak, not more in the similitude of its growth, than its appropriation to various purposes of utility. It not only constitutes excellent bedding for cattle in the winter, but has been considered so instrumental to the PRESERVATION of GAME, that laws have been framed to prevent its being wantonly destroyed, or unseasonably perverted, "Any person who shall unlawfully set fire to, burn, or destroy, or assist in so doing, any goss, furze, or fern, upon any FOREST or CHASE within England, he shall, on the oath of one witness before a JUSTICE of the peace, forfeit a sum not exceeding 5l. nor less than 40s. one moiety to the informer, the other to the poor of the parish. The same to be levied by distress; in want of which, the offender to be committed to the house of correction, or county gaol, for a time not longer than three months, nor less than one." In addition to which act, there are other MANORIAL rights and local customs, respecting FERN upon wastes and commons, restraining those who have right of common (or other privileges) from cutting fern before HOLYROOD DAY in every year. FERRET—is a useful little animal, well known to WARRENERS and RAT-CATCHERS, by whom they are principally bred, as necessary to their own occupations. The ferret is of great spirit, strength, and courage, for its size; is an inveterate enemy to rabbits, rats, and poultry; in the pursuit of which, it will encounter any difficulty or danger, when once put upon the scent. The body is longer in proportion to its height, than almost any other animal, the weazel and stoat excepted. The colour The FERRET usually produces five or six young at each litter, after a gestation of forty days: the offspring continue blind for thirty days, and copulate in six weeks after they can see. They are not ravenous, (except in pursuit of their prey, after having been long fasted;) are easily supported upon bread, milk, and similar trifles, enabled by nature to exist a long time without food, which is in some degree compensated for by their great enjoyment of sleep. When used in WARRENS, they are hunted with muzzles, that they may alarm the RABBITS, FETLOCK.—The part so called is the next joint below the knee, and is formed by the union of the shank-bone, at its bottom, with the upper part of the small bone passing from this junction to the coronary bone at its top. The TENDONS (commonly called the back sinews) have their lower seat of insertion at this joint, which is constantly liable to, and frequently susceptible of, the most serious LAMENESS. As injuries of this joint are sometimes incurable, particularly when occasioned by a twist or ligamentary distortion, one precaution may be prudently retained in memory; that more horses are lamed by short, sudden, and unnatural turns in the narrow stalls of an ill-constructed STABLE, (particularly in the Metropolis,) than by any straitforward means whatever. Tendinous lameness has a much greater chance of early relief, and permanent cure, than an injury sustained at the junction of the bones; for the relaxed tendons being restored to their original elasticity by CORROBORATIVE STIMULANTS, BLISTERING, or FIRING, frequently continue sound during the existence of the horse: on the contrary, a LIGAMENTARY LAMENESS, however FEVER,—HORSES are subject to, and frequently attacked with, originating in various causes, and acting upon different constitutions in a different way. Judicious discrimination should be made between what is (ab origne) a FEVER within itself, and symptomatic fever, dependent upon, and arising from, another cause. Extreme pain may produce FEVER, as in large formations of matter, where tumours approach gradually to suppuration. Fever may become attendant upon inflammatory cholic, or upon a severe fit of the strangury, or spasmodic affection of the kidnies. In all INFLAMMATIONS of the LUNGS, the fever exceeds description; but these fevers are called SYMPTOMATIC, as being a concomitant, or distinguishing trait, of the DISEASE upon which it is founded, rather than a disease within itself. The predominant symptoms of FEVER are, an agitated lassitude and debility of the whole frame, with evident disquietude in every position; quick and strong pulsation; mouth parched and dry, with a burning heat to the fingers, when placed under the tongue; breath of a fleshy offensive smell; the eyes red, inflamed and prominent, as if propelled by internal inflammation; heaving FIDGET,—the name of a horse of much celebrity, who won as many capital stakes as most horses of his time. He was bred by Mr. Vernon; was got by Florizel; dam by Matchem, out of an own sister to Sweetbriar. In the possession of the Duke of Bedford, he became a stallion at Wooburn, and was the sire of Augusta, Cub, Victor, Frisky, Hamadryad, Nestler, Fantail, Zemise, Granadilla, Lady Sarah, St. Vitus; all winners; as well as a great number of colts and fillies, who won large stakes at three and four years old, but ran without a name. FIGGING—is the sublime art of insinuating a profusion of false spirit, and artificial fire, into a horse, when offering him for sale. This is done FILLETS—are, in more intelligible language, the LOINS of a HORSE, and seated above the flank, beyond the last rib, and in a transverse line with the hip-bone. A horse long in the back, narrow across the loins, and tucked up (greyhound like) in the carcase, is said to be badly made in the FILLETS, or, in other words, weak in the loins. FILLY,—the female produce of a HORSE and MARE: she is called a FILLY FOAL the first year; a YEARLING the second; and a FILLY till four years old. FILM—appertains to a certain DEFECT, and properly used, applies only to a thickening of the outer coat or humour of THE EYE; in which case relief from external applications may very frequently be obtained: but where any of the internal coverings are become opaque, (and sometimes erroneously FIRETAIL—was a name given to three famous running horses in succession; the first got by Childers, the second by Squirrel, and the third by Eclipse. FIRING—is an operation performed upon different parts of A HORSE for the promotion of any particular purpose, (according to the degree of injury sustained,) and in the following way. The horse being safely secured by twitches and cords, according to the methods in general use, the OPERATOR having his irons in the fire properly heated, and his attendant ready to supply him with another, as often as the fire of the previous iron is exhausted, he proceeds with the edge of the red-hot iron to make longitudinal and transverse strokes in succession, over the whole part where injury has been sustained, and to such extent as circumstances may have rendered necessary; the depth and magnitude of the operation depending upon the severity of the injury, and the length of time since it was sustained. Firing is frequently adopted in strains of the back sinews, where the subject is said to have broken down; likewise for BONE and BLOOD SPAVINS, CURBS, SPLENTS, and partially to prevent a renewal or repetition of SAND-CRACKS, as well as for RINGBONES, and LAMENESS in the round-bone; in the two FIRING-IRON,—the instrument with which the OPERATION of FIRING is performed. It is a piece of iron about fifteen inches long, with a stem terminating in a wooden handle at one end, having a blade of three inches long, and two wide, at the other. This blade is forged flat, and is at the back half an inch in thickness, becoming gradually thinner towards the edge, which is not more than one third what it is at the back. They are formed of different dimensions for different occasions, and three or four are kept in the fire, and used to expedite the operation, where it is carefully and expertly performed. FISH.—Reasons are adduced under the head "Angling," why it has been thought unnecessary to enter upon so copious a subject in a work of this kind; but as FISH, FISH PONDS, and FISHERIES, have been found repeatedly worthy the attention of the legislature, for the preservation of PROPERTY and PERSONAL RIGHTS, a concise abstract of the LAWS, as they now stand, respecting those rights, will constitute the whole that can be required, or thought necessary, upon this subject. By the 5th Eliz. c. xxi. s. 2, it is provided, That if any person shall unlawfully BREAK or DESTROY By 31st Henry Eighth, c. ii. s. 2, If any evil-disposed persons shall fish in the day-time, from six in the morning till six in the evening, in any PONDS, STEWS, or MOATS, with nets, hooks, or bait, against the will of the owners, they shall, on conviction thereof, at the suit of the King, or the party aggrieved, suffer imprisonment for the space of three months, and find security for their good behaviour. By 22d and 23d Charles Second, c. xxv. s. 7, it is enacted, That if any person shall, at any time, use any casting-net, drag-net, shove-net, or other net whatever; or any angle, hair, noose, troll, or spear; or shall lay any wears, pots, nets, fish-hooks, or other engines; or shall take any fish by any means whatsoever, in any RIVER, STEW, MOAT, POND, or other water, or shall be aiding thereunto, without the consent of the OWNER of the WATER, and be convicted thereof before a JUSTICE, by confession, or the OATH of one witness, within one month after the Justices are also authorized to take, cut in pieces, and destroy, all such articles as before recited and adapted to the taking of fish, as may be found in the possession of OFFENDERS when taken. Persons aggrieved may appeal to the QUARTER SESSIONS, whose judgment shall be final. Although this power is vested in a MAGISTRATE, yet the owner of the water, or fishery, cannot justify such a measure, but can only take them damage feasant, as is particularly expressed in various clauses of different acts of Parliament upon this subject. And by the 4th and 5th William and Mary, it is enacted, That no person (except makers and sellers of nets, owners of a river or fishery, authorized fishermen, and their apprentices) shall keep any net, angle, leap, pike, or other engine for taking of FISH. The proprietor of any river or fishery, or persons by them authorized, may seize, and keep to his own use, any engine which shall be found in the custody of any person fishing in any river or fishery, without the CONSENT of the OWNER or OCCUPIER. And such owner, occupier, or person, authorized by either, sanctioned by the consent of any JUSTICE, in the day-time, may search the houses, or other places, of any person prohibited to keep the same, who shall be suspected to have such nets, or other engines, in his possession, and the same to seize, and keep to their own use, or cut in pieces and destroy. By the 5th George Third, c. xiv. s. 1, it is enacted, That if any person shall enter into any PARK or PADDOCK inclosed, or enter into any garden, orchard, or yard, belonging to, or adjoining to, any dwelling-house, wherein shall be any river, pond, moat, or other water, and, by any means whatsoever, (without the consent of the owner,) steal, kill, or destroy, any FISH, bred, kept, or preserved therein, or shall be assisting therein, or shall receive or buy any such fish, knowing them to be such, shall, upon conviction, be transported for seven years. Persons making confession of such offence, and giving evidence against an accomplice, who, in pursuance thereof, shall be convicted, will be entitled to a free pardon. And by the same Act, s. 3, it is enacted, That if any person shall take, kill, or destroy, or ATTEMPT to take, kill, or destroy, any fish in any river or stream, pool, pond, or other water, (not being in any park or paddock enclosed, or in any garden, orchard, or yard, belonging or adjoining to a dwelling-house, but in any other enclosed ground, being private property,) such person, being thereof convicted by confession, or the oath of one witness before a JUSTICE, shall forfeit five pounds to the owner of the fishery of such river or other water; and in default thereof, shall be committed to the house of correction for a time not exceeding six months. Stealing fish in disguise is made FELONY by the 9th George the First, c. xxii. If any person armed and disguised, shall unlawfully steal, or take away, any FISH, out of any river, or pond, or (whether armed or not) shall unlawfully and maliciously break down the head or mound of any FISH-POND, whereby the fish shall be lost and destroyed, or shall rescue any person in custody for any such offence, or procure any other to join him therein, he shall be guilty of FELONY, without benefit of clergy. .—Any ulcer having a SINUS or pipe of uncertain termination, the inside of which has acquired callosity, and from whence a matter or bloody sanies flows, or may be pressed out, is There is no one disease, or injury, to which THE HORSE is incident, more perplexing to the VULCANIANS of the old school or VETERINARIANS of the new, than a FISTULA; the formation and process of which is precisely thus. A repetition of the bruise and friction, or painful pressure upon the wither, having excited inflammation, NATURE makes an effort in her own favour; tumefaction or swelling ensues, and suppuration follows of course. From the bony structure of this particular part, a copious secretion of matter is in the first instance never obtained, or, indeed, to be expected. From the great difficulty of securing poultices so as to retain Various modes of treatment, and different directions for a certainty of cure, have been laid down by successive writers upon FARRIERY, and frequently with little success. Theory, it must be admitted, is one thing; the execution in PRACTICE is another. The VOLUME of EXPERIENCE opens to the mind of rumination, and professional emulation, a new page every day; that page now demonstrates the fact, that the most inveterate and long-standing FISTULA is to be firmly and infallibly cured, and the parts perfectly restored, by a mode easy in execution, and invariable in effect. Let a silver probe be passed in every possible direction, that the SINUSSES may be precisely ascertained; this done, let the probe be properly armed with lint, then plentifully impregnated with BUTTER of ANTIMONY, and carefully introduced in such state into each distinct sinus, (whichever way they divide or ramify;) when there, give the probe a turn, that every part may be equally affected; artificial inflammation FLANK of a HORSE—is the part lying between the last RIB and the HIND QUARTER, reaching from the part of the LOINS nearest the hip-bone, to the bottom of the belly nearest the STIFLE. If a horse is well ribbed up, his flank not hollow, but circularly prominent, and his BACK SHORT, he is then called a "good barrelled horse," and is very seldom deficient in other respects which constitute attraction. FLEAM, the well-known instrument used for BLEEDING HORSES. Lancets are preferred by some with thin-skinned and blood-horses. Different kinds of SPRING-FLEAMS have been invented also; but no one has been produced of sufficient merit or utility to entirely supersede the established custom. FLESHY-FOOTED.—A horse is said to be FLESHY FOOTED, when that part of the bottom of the foot on each side the FROG (called the OUTER SOLE) is preternaturally prominent, constituting a convexity above the wall or crust of the HOOF, where the shoe should have its proper bearing upon the FOOT of the HORSE. In feet of this description, the outer sole, from repeated bruising and battering in constant work upon hard roads, or from an injudicious and destructive paring away with the butteris, are so exceeding thin as to indent with the slightest impression, and being too weak to resist the membranous expansion within, compulsively submit to the internal propulsion, and are thrown into the projecting form already described. Great care is required in shoeing horses with this defect: the inner part of the web of the shoe should be so completely hollowed as not to admit the least chance of bearing upon the prominent part; if it does, tenderness and disquietude (if not lameness) must inevitably ensue. In cases of this kind, neither the butteris or drawing-knife, should be permitted in hand; they only render the REMEDY worse than the DISEASE. FLORIZEL—was a horse of much celebrity upon the TURF, beating most horses of his time; and was afterwards a stallion in great repute for many years. He was got by Herod, dam by Cygnet; bred by Mr. C. Blake, and foaled in 1768. FOAL—is the produce of HORSE and MARE in a general sense, including both male and female; but when a more particular description is required, it is customary to say either a COLT, or a FILLY foal. FOAM.—See FROTH. FODDER.—The winter provender for HORSES and CATTLE is so called, and consists of barley and oat straw, peas haum, the short rakings of the barn floor after threshing the corn, and previous to cleaning it; all which, with good shelter in the most severe and dreary part of the season, constitute no ill accommodation; particularly those FARMYARDS in the country that are well managed, from whence HORSES, after a winter's run, frequently come up FIRM in FLESH, and not very foul in condition. On the contrary, those who are advocates for the STRAW-YARDS within ten or fifteen miles of FOIL,—a term used in HARE HUNTING. When, during the chase, a hare, after a head or double, runs over the ground she has ran before, she is then said to be running the foil, and with strict truth, for nothing can so much foil the HOUNDS as a chase of this description. Old hares, who have speed enough to break away, and get considerably a-head, almost invariably throw themselves out to the right or left, double, and QUAT; particularly if a hedge-row, hedge, fern, furze, or any kind of covert presents itself favourably for the purpose. The HOUNDS continuing to run the scent to the spot where she made her head, over-run the hare, and having no continuance of scent, are of course at fault; during which delay of trying forward, trying back, making a cast to the right, then a cast to the left, the HARE slips into her foil; by repeatedly running of which with the same instinctive sagacity, FOLDING-NET.—See Bat Fowling. FOMENTATION—is, perhaps, the most generally useful of all external applications in a great variety of cases, and cannot of course be too well known, or too much encouraged. It is a process but little prescribed or practised by FARRIERS or VETERINARIANS; either because its efficacious property is very little known; or the persevering patience required in the act, is too great for constitutional indolence. In all inflammatory tumours and enlargements arising from STRAINS, BLOWS, BRUISES, and various other injuries, the efficacy of hot and persevering FOMENTATION can only be known to those who have repeatedly experienced its salutary effects. In fact, its properties are twofold, in as much as it assists NATURE in whichever is her most predominant effort, either for absorption or suppuration. Fomentations are prepared by boiling three or four double handsful of the different kinds of aromatic garden herbs in six quarts or two gallons of water, occasionally stirring them for a quarter of an hour; then let the part affected be patiently FOMENTED The herbs chiefly in use for FOMENTATIONS (and from which any three or four may be selected) are Roman and COMMON WORMWOOD, MALLOWS and MARSHMALLOWS, LAVENDER leaves and flowers, Rosemary leaves, CAMMOMILE flowers, Elder flowers, and Bay leaves. These are articles not always to be readily obtained; and as they are in all HUNTING establishments likely to be wanted upon the most sudden emergencies, GENTLEMEN in the country will find the convenience of giving orders for an annual supply to be provided, and properly dried, in the summer, that no disappointment may be experienced in the winter, when their use is more likely to be required. They are kept ready mixed at the BOTANICAL SHOPS in the different markets FOOT.—The foot of a horse extends from the FETLOCK-JOINT to the OUTER SOLE at the bottom of the hoof: it includes the CORONARY-BONE, the NUT-BONE, the COFFIN-BONE, and the inner sole, (or membranous mass,) in which it is deposited; as well as the frog and the wall or hoof surrounding and supporting the whole.—See Feet. FOOT-FOUNDERED.—A horse is said to be FOOT-FOUNDEREd when there is an evident defect in action, and a palpable tenderness, which prevents him from putting his feet freely and boldly to the ground. This malady seems never to have been clearly comprehended, or perfectly explained, by any of those who have written upon the subjects included in the general practice of FARRIERY. It is to be observed, that HORSES labouring under this infirmity, have become gradually contracted in the hoof, and proportionally narrowed at the heels, putting their feet before each other with as much fear and caution, as if they were moving upon a sheet of red-hot iron; the RIDER of any such horse, being constantly in the happy expectation of the horse's pitching upon his head, and probably breaking the rider's own neck. The very few reasons hitherto assigned for the origin of this defect, "as being watered when too hot, then setting the horse upon cold planks without litter;" "heats and colds, which disorder the body, and excite malignant humours, that inflame the blood, melt the grease, and make it descend downward to the feet, where it settles, and causes a numbness in the hoofs;" are so truly nugatory, that they are not for a single moment entitled to SCIENTIFIC disquisition. The only two RATIONAL CAUSES which can be assigned for this disorder (if it can with propriety be so termed) seem never to have attracted professional observation or reflection. That it has its foundation in long and hard riding (or drawing) upon the hard and hot roads in the summer months, will not admit of a single doubt; which foundation once laid, is not only increased by every repetition of the original cause, but a formidable addition made to it by the shameful and destructive practice of fitting red-hot shoes, from THE FORGE, to the foot of the horse; an unrelenting act of cruelty, constantly and obstinately persevered in at almost every shoeing-shop in the kingdom, by which infernal act alone, hundreds of horses are annually FOOT-FOUNDERED; to crush which evil, THE LEGISLATURE would not find itself degraded, by enacting a prohibitory LAW, any more than by condescending to protect the persons of the outside passengers upon a STAGE COACH. To justify what is advanced upon the subject of FOOT-FOUNDER, let it be recollected, that persevering friction will produce fire; of which we have repeated proofs in the number of carriages known to have taken fire upon the roads, and to have been totally consumed. We are convinced a piece of cold iron, struck with a hammer five or six times in succession upon an anvil, will quickly afford a communication of fire to a match; this being reduced to an incontrovertible certainty, what must be the excess of heat produced by the EFFECT of ATTRITION between the shoe of a horse and the hardness of the road in the summer months, the animal going a FIFTEEN or TWENTY miles stage, at the rate of twelve or fourteen miles an hour? Why, the effect is precisely this; that, by the time the horse has travelled a few miles, the RIDER dismounting, will find, upon instantaneous examination, the shoe has acquired (by the attrition already described) a degree of heat beyond his power to bear with his hand, without being seriously burned. The effect of heat without, being the same within, acts so powerfully (in proportion to the continuation of the journey, and the state of the road) upon the foot of the horse, particularly those of the weakest texture, and the most susceptible, that the INNER SOLE (or membranous mass in which the coffin-bone is lodged) becomes in time, and by repetition, partially divested of its moisture, the very Those who have been so exceedingly sparing, or so accidentally sterile, in respect to the causes of this DEFECT, have, nevertheless, been sufficiently liberal in directing A CURE. "First, pare all the horse's soles so thin that you may see the quick; then bleed him well at every toe; after which stop the vein with tallow and resin melted together; and having tacked some hollow shoes slightly on his feet, stop them with bran, tar, and tallow, melted together, and poured into the feet as hot as can well be born; repeat this every other day for a week or nine days, after which give him proper exercise daily; or, what is still better, turn him out for six weeks, if it is a proper season for so doing." Whether this mode, so strenuously recommended, and copied by one writer from another, is likely to effect a cure, every reader will enjoy the privilege of judging for himself: it is, however, most likely that those who rely upon any professional exertions for total obliteration, will be disappointed, and that occasional palliation is all that can be reasonably expected. There is, however, no doubt, but frequent and plentiful impregnations FOREHAND—implies that part of A HORSE extending from the ears to the withers; which, to be handsome, should be long, and rise gradually from the upper point of the shoulder-blade to the very extremity of the ear. A FOREHAND of this description adds greatly to the majestic appearance and value of the horse. But a horse low before, with a short forehand, and indented crest, can never become an object of attraction. FOREHEAD.—The forehead is the front of the horse's head; to observe the form and effect of which, it will be necessary to get before him. It is the space extending from the roots of the ears, and between the eyes, which being BROAD and FLAT, having a feather or star in the center, constitutes a degree of beauty, and may be supposed to have a cross of the Arabian in the blood. If a horse, having a wide flat forehead, has the advantage of a full prominent spirited eye, they at the first approach afford no small indication of excellence; and, upon nearer inspection, a corresponding symmetry is expected to follow. FORE-LEGS.—The fore-legs of a horse begin at the lower extremity of the SHOULDER-BLADE before, and the ELBOW behind: they consist of what are termed the ARMS, (or fore thighs,) which extend to each KNEE; the shank-bone from the knee to the FETLOCK JOINT; the fetlock-bone is continued from thence to the CORONARY-BONE, into which it is inserted; the coronary-bone in part fills the cavity, or box of the hoof, being lodged in the COFFIN-BONE, supported by the nut-bone behind; these last are deposited in the membranous mass denominated the INNER SOLE; the whole being terminated by the bottom of the hoof, the frog, and the outer sole. The FORE-LEGS, to be uniform, (in a front view,) should be wide at the upper part next the breast, strong and broad in the ARM, bony below the KNEE, free from SPLENTS, a broad sound HOOF, firm SOLE, and a FROG without thrushes. FOREST.—A FOREST is a large tract of land in pasture, many miles in extent and circumference, the property of THE CROWN, mostly well stocked with timber, (from whence the navy is supplied,) as well as with a variety of underwood, furze, fern, &c. for the breeding and preservation of both VENISON and GAME. Forests are of great antiquity, and their immunities are protected by laws peculiarly and solely adapted to their preservation; the execution of which are lodged in principal officers, and their subordinates, as follows; JUSTICES in A FOREST has its foundation under a commission bearing the great seal of England, and when proclaimed through the county in which the land so appropriated lies, "that it is A FOREST, and to be governed by the LAWS OF A FOREST," it then becomes a forest upon record, and the OFFICERS before mentioned are appointed. A forest has its "BOUNDARIES," its "PURLIEUS," its "PROPERTIES," its "COURTS," with a variety of regulations equally uninteresting and unentertaining, except to those who are resident within its precincts; to whom a variety of enlarged particulars will be useful, and may be found in "Daniels' Rural Sports," a recent publication of merit and celebrity. There are said to have been SIXTY-NINE FORESTS in England, of which the New Forest, Windsor Forest, Sherwood Forest, and the Forest of Dean, have always been considered the principal. His Majesty's STAG HOUNDS are kept at the kennel upon Ascot Heath, in Windsor Forest, where he has for some years enjoyed the pleasures of the chase. The beasts of forest, in all ancient records, were denominated "BEASTS OF VENERY," and consisted FOREST LAWS—are the laws framed for the protection of VERT and VENISON within the precincts of a forest. It is the business, and the duty, of all subordinate officers, to apprehend offenders of whatever description, and present them to the FOREST COURTS, in order to their being punished according to the magnitude of the offence they may have committed. FOREST COURTS—are the courts occasionally held for executing the FOREST LAWS. The principal of which is, the Court of the Chief Justice in Eyre; this is a court of record, and is held only once in three years. The Court of Swainmote consists of the verderers, who, in some degree, are the JUDGES; as they receive presentments, and hear evidence, as well as enquire of offences to convict, but cannot pass judgment, that power being reserved to the Court of the Chief Justice (called "JUSTICE SEAT") alone. The Court of Swainmote can only be held three times a year. The Court of Attachment is likewise a meeting of the VERDERERS, During the time of the great camp upon Bagshot Heath, the Duke of Richmond having taken up his temporary residence at the Rose Inn, Wokingham, in Windsor Forest, where the courts were occasionally held, and seeing the regulations respecting the Court of Attachment fixed in the room, his Grace wished to obtain some information upon the subject; but finding none to be derived from the waiter, he desired "a person might be sent up who knew something of the matter." In a few minutes appeared the son of the landlady, who most sagaciously informed the Duke, that the "Forty Days Court was an ANNUAL MEETING, held every six weeks;" with which very clear and explanatory account, his Grace condescendingly expressed himself "perfectly satisfied." FORM—is the spot in which the HARE takes her seat at the dawn of day, to secrete herself, after making her various work in the night (or rather in the early part of the morning) to avoid discovery. When found sitting, she is said to be in her FORM. If shot as she sits, without being previously disturbed, she is then said to have been shot in her form. Hares vary their sitting according to the season, the sun, and the wind. Soon after harvest they are found in wheat, barley, and oat stubbles, as well FOUL-FEEDERS—See Appetite. FOWL.—Fowl, properly arranged, may be classed under three distinct heads; as DOMESTIC FOWL, consisting of cocks, hens, geese, and ducks. Wild fowl, comprehending, in the general sporting acceptation, only birds of flight and passage, as sea-gulls and geese, wild ducks, widgeon, teal, curlews, plover, woodcocks, and snipes. Game fowl, in the earliest Acts of Parliament, for its preservation, were extended to a very long list, including even the "Heron," the "Mallard," the "Duck," and the "Teal:" these, however, seem to be buried in a legal oblivion, and the whole at present to centre in the PHEASANT, the PARTRIDGE, the GROUSE, or red game, and the HEATH FOWL, or black game; the laws respecting which individually, will be found under their distinct and separate heads. FOWLING—is a term in some degree PROVINCIAL, being used in a different sense in one county to what it is in another. In fenny countries, FOWLING FOWLING-BAG, or NET.—A bag or net is so called, which hangs by the side of a SPORTSMAN, suspended from a leathern belt passing round the neck over his shoulder, for the purpose of receiving such GAME as he may be able "to bag," or "bring to net." FOWLING-PIECE—has been generally used to imply a GUN of any description, so far as it was applicable to the purpose of killing GAME, or, in fact, WILD FOWL of any kind. It is, however, now more properly applied to those of five or six feet in the barrel, principally made use of for killing SEA and WATER FOWL, as Wild or Solan Geese, Wild Ducks, Widgeon, Teal, &c. FOX.—The FOX is that well-known native animal of this country whose instinctive cunning has rendered it proverbial: they are common in most parts of the kingdom, (as well as in Scotland,) but vary so much in size, that a late writer has extended his description to three different and distinct kinds. He says, "There are three varieties of fox with Without descending to a minute examination of this "VARIETY," which probably may arise from the force of a too fertile imagination, or the different growth of FOXES in different counties, where the deficiency of food, or the difficulty of obtaining it, may occasion as great and proportional a variation in the size of the ANIMAL, as may be observed with the HORSES of Scotland and Wales, when brought into competition with those produced in a more fertile part of the kingdom; it must suffice to explain his natural history as of one species only. The FOX, when tamed and subject to nice inspection, is one of the most beautifully formed animals in the creation; and when that form is critically surveyed, the possibility of his persevering speed before such immense bodies of fleet pursuers, The fox in formation has great resemblance to the dog, but with some variations; his head is larger in proportion to his body; his ears are shorter; his tail thicker, and the hair longer: he has a broad flat forehead, narrowing to a picked nose; ears erect, and sharp at the point; eyes small, and fiery in aspect, by which are easily observed whether he is influenced by AFFECTION, ANGER, or FEAR. His sense of smelling is so instinctively exquisite, that he can wind either his prey or his enemy at a very considerable distance. The sagacity of this animal, in the pursuit of his prey, as well as his various modes of obtaining it, are almost beyond description: his favourite objects are GAME of every kind, RABBITS, POULTRY In his nocturnal depredations, he is in some degree systematic, frequently selecting for his concealment those small grassy-bottomed COVERTS near the small hovels and thatched cottages of the labouring poor, where his lurking-place is the least suspected. Here, in his recluse KENNEL, he enjoys the various cackling of the different kinds of poultry, and exultingly anticipates the intentional devastation. When unrestrained, and in a state of liberty, he seizes POULTRY with a rapturous eagerness, and ravenous rapacity, absolutely incredible; his joy in Fortune not always favoring him at the same points, he has his ALTERNATIVES: as it is the misfortune annexed to his very NATURE to afford sport to others, so, with all the retaliation in his power, he frequently finds sport for himself. To the helpless, inoffensive LEVERETS, during the early part of the season, he frequently gives chase, particularly on moon-light nights, with too much success. In this pursuit he vents a sensation of pleasure, partaking more of a yelping whimper than a distinct bark: he seizes old HARES in their forms; perseveringly digs rabbits out of their burrows; is indefatigable in the search after, and discovery of, PHEASANTS and PARTRIDGES upon their nests, which The naturally rank and offensive smell of the FOX renders it a rich scent to HOUNDS, which they evidently evince when it lays well, and they are running BREAST HIGH; at which time the crows, magpies, and jays, (who consider him an invincible and cruel enemy,) give clamorous proofs of his presence, by hovering over him with their screams of exultation at his impending fate, so long as they can keep him in view. They copulate (or go to clicket, as it is called) in the winter, and produce cubs during the month of April, and the first week in May: they have but one litter a year; an OLD VIXEN frequently bringing from six to nine cubs; a VIXEN of the first or second year not so many. They are known to grow for eighteen months, and to live, even in a tame state, for fourteen or fifteen years. Doubts have arisen, and opposite opinions have been strenuously supported, upon the question whether the FOX and DOG will generate an OFFSPRING to Instances of the extreme cunning, and innate sagacity, of FOXES, when hunted, and in returning twenty and thirty miles to the coverts where they have been first found, are upon record, and almost innumerable. Their COURAGE, as well as the strength of their jaws, are beyond conception: they defend themselves to the last extremity; no blows deter them from their hold: their bite is severe and dangerous, as they make their teeth meet through a strong and thick hand. When caught by the HOUNDS, they are silently resolute even in DEATH; for revengefully seizing upon the first assailant, their hold is never relinquished but with the last gasp. —has been for time immemorial a favourite sport with the natives of this kingdom, particularly in the prime of life; the pleasing exercise, and bodily exertion, contributing greatly to the PRESERVATION of HEALTH; but the fatigue and danger render it but ill-adapted to the AGED, the INFIRM, and the VALETUDINARIAN. The persevering speed and fortitude of the GAME, the constantly Fox-hunting seems to be possessed of a charm, or magical inspiration, within itself, that even the most serious, the most cynical, and the most singular, cannot, with all the firmness of their resolves, summon resolution to withstand. It is the very kind of rapturous gratification to which every effort of the pen becomes inadequate in its attempts at description; it must be seen to be understood; it must be FELT to be ENJOYED. A FOX-HUNTING ESTABLISHMENT consists, in general, of what it has done for the last century past, at least with those PACKS most celebrated for the EMINENCE and OPULENCE FREE WARREN.—A FREE WARREN is a term totally distinct from FOREST, CHACE, PARK, MANOR, or WARREN; it is a franchise derived originally from the Crown; and the person having a grant of free warren over certain lands, possesses a SOLE RIGHT of pursuing, taking, and killing GAME of every kind within its limits; although there may be no one acre of land his own property through the whole district where he is possessed of this right. There are instances where a variety of circumstances render manorial rights and privileges so complex, and seemingly indefinite, as to produce litigation without personal enmity, but merely that the right A curious cause came on to be tried before a jury at the summer assizes of the present year, 1802, held at Abingdon, for the county of Berks, wherein John Westbrook, Gent. of the parish of Bray, (situate in Windsor Forest,) was PLAINTIFF, and a Game-keeper of his Majesty's the DEFENDANT. The action was brought to try the RIGHT of the DEFENDANT, as one of his Majesty's keepers, to KILL GAME within the enclosed grounds of the PLAINTIFF, situate in, and surrounded by, the wastes, commons, and within the boundaries of the said FOREST. When, without adverting to the laws relative to forests only, (with which the question was totally unconnected,) the Court held it good, that the King, possessing a FREE WARREN over the WHOLE, possessed likewise the privilege of appointing a KEEPER to kill game upon any, and within every, part of the said FREE WARREN, without the least exception as to enclosed lands, the property of others; This being a question of privilege, tried on the part of an individual against the prerogative of the Crown, it might be fairly considered conclusive upon the subject of FREE WARREN; but as it cannot be too clearly understood, for the prevention of ill neighbourhood, and expensive litigation, another decision is subjoined, which took place about the same time, though in a different county. On the 12th of July, in the same year, a writ of inquiry was executed before the Under Sheriff at Hertford, in an action wherein Henry Browne, of North Mimms, Esq. was PLAINTIFF, and Thomas Greenwood, the Younger, DEFENDANT. The action was brought for a trespass committed by the DEFENDANT, in shooting game within the FREE WARREN belonging to the PLAINTIFF, who is Lord of the Manor of North Mimms, and entitled to free warren through the whole of the Manor. It appeared, that the land on which the trespass was committed, and the game killed, by the DEFENDANT, was not, in point of fact, the land of the PLAINTIFF, but, on the contrary, belonged to Justinian Casamajor, Esq. However, as it was proved to be within the Manor of North Mimms, and the right of free warren extending over the whole of the Manor, the Jury, after considering FRET.—The disorder which (in the country) is called by this name, is the FLATULENT CHOLIC, and occasioned from a retention of wind, and a rarefaction of air in the intestinal canal. It is immediately discoverable by the fulness and extreme tension of the carcase, the agonizing pain of the horse, the rumbling of the confined air, the partial and very trifling expulsions of wind, the laboured respiration, frequent groaning, suddenly laying down, and as hastily rising, constant looking back to the flank on one side or the other, as if soliciting relief from those who surround him. The great and leading object is, to promote a plentiful EXPULSION of WIND: this is in general followed by excrementitious discharges, by which ease is obtained, and the disorder near at an end. Warm, spicy, aromatic CARMINATIVES, blended with ANODYNES, are the medicines best adapted to this species of CHOLIC, and to which it speedily submits; more particularly if plenty of ASSISTANTS are at hand to bestow the necessary portion of flank rubbing, (and belly wisping,) to an unceasing perseverance in which, success is equally to be depended upon with the administration of MEDICINE; as in most cases FROG,—in HORSES, is the centrical soft kind of horny substance at the bottom of the foot, spreading wide from the heel, having a cleft in the middle, and terminating in a point toward the toe. To the internal parts the lower extremity of the TENDONS are attached, and the FROG is the basis by which their elasticity is supported, and from whence is derived the deceptive reasoning, that the FROG must indispensibly (in action) touch the ground. The frog is subject to a defect, called the FRUSH, or THRUSH, and this, when become virulent, is termed running thrush: it sometimes arises from internal heat, by standing too much upon foul hot litter, (particularly in the livery stables of the Metropolis,) as well as from a STAGNANT state of the FLUIDS in the extremities, for want of proper exercise, leg rubbing, and keeping the feet clean. FROTH.—A HORSE displaying a profusion of FROTH when champing upon the BIT, either in action upon the road, or in the FIELD with HOUNDS, may be considered a distinguishing, and almost invariable sign of both good spirit and sound bottom; for a dull jade, or a HORSE of the sluggish cart breed, is very rarely to be seen with this appearance. It is also no inferior criterion of HEALTH, and may, in general, be considered truly FRUSH.—A disorder or defect in the centrical cleft of the FROG, at the bottom of the foot, was formerly so called; but is now more generally known under the denomination of Thrush, which SEE. FUMIGATION—is a most useful PROCESS in all cases where the DISEASES of HORSES particularly affect the HEAD. In recent colds, obstinate coughs, glandular tumefactions under the jaws, STRANGLES, INFLAMMATION of the LUNGS, low fevers, and even in dulness, over-fatigue, or when a horse is off his appetite, and refuses food, it is very frequently of perceptible utility. Horses may be fumigated by boiling ROSEMARY, LAVENDER, MARSHMALLOW LEAVES, and CAMMOMILE FLOWERS, in a few quarts of water over the fire for a quarter of an hour, then straining off the liquor, and strewing the hot herbs from one end of the manger to the other, fastening the horse's head up with the rack rein, by which means he cannot evade the EFFLUVIA. In want of these, or where they are difficult to obtain, a mash made of GROUND MALT, with boiling water, is a very substantial and proper substitute, into which stir two ounces of aniseed, and two ounces of carraway seeds, both fresh, and FUNGUS—is the too-fast shooting granulations of new flesh during the incarnation of WOUNDS, particularly in HORSES, with whom it is invariably exuberant, and requires some degree of judgment in the suppression: it is too frequently attempted by Roman vitriol, corrosive sublimate, and other caustics; but they are only productive of disappointment, in constituting an eschar upon the surface, and leaving the cure at a more remote and uncertain distance, than before their application. Slight scarifications, both transverse and longitudinal, with a LANCET or BISTORY, is a far preferable mode of treatment, and that followed by a dressing of lint covered with proper digestives. FURNITURE HORSE.—In many parts of the United Kingdom, the SADDLE, BRIDLE, CLOTHS, and every other part appertaining to the body of the horse, passes under the denomination of horse furniture. |
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