Word Meanings - SWEENY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses.

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• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• HORSESHOE
  The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in
• ATROPHY
  A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.
• HORSESHOEING
  The act or employment of shoeing horses.
• HORSESHOER
  One who shoes horses.
• MUSCLE READING
  The art of making discriminations between objects of choice, of discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects, etc., by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact.
• MUSCLED
  Furnished with muscles; having muscles; as, things well muscled.
• MUSCLE
  See CONTRACTION (more info) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion. See Illust. of Muscles of the Human Body, in Appendix. The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up. Note:
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• ROUND-SHOULDERED
  Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.