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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Hoof \Hoof\, n.; pl. {Hoofs}, very rarely {Hooves}. [OE. hof, AS. h[d3]f; akin to D. hoef, G1huf, OHG. huof, Icel. h[d3]fr, Sw. hof, Dan. hov; cf. Russ. kopuito, Skr. [87]apha. [root]225.] 1. The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc. On burnished hooves his war horse trode. --Tennyson. 2. A hoofed animal; a beast. Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind. --Ex. x. 26. 3. (Geom.) See {Ungula}. | |
