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Showing decrepitude
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spavined
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Word definitions for spavined in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having spavin (said of a horse). 2 Old, worn out, obsolete (said figuratively of a person).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spavined \Spav"ined\, a. Affected with spavin.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (of horses) disabled in the feet or legs [syn: lame ]
Usage examples of spavined.
Rigor glints from her eye, rigorousness from the set of her jaw, Catholic grandeur and reparation from her spavined fingers.
No wonder science fiction, fantasy and horror writers were regarded as wheezing geeks, spavined mouse-potatoes and cellulite-pocked nebbishes, unable to command their fair share of media attention.
Not like America, where spavined Alabaman must mingle with Virginian nabob, where tormented Lithuanian must extend his hand to the seven-foot Cape Codder with those true-blue eyes.
They git on to the fust poplar hobbyhoss whitch trots along, not carin a sent whether the beest is even goin, clear sited and sound or spavined, blind and bawky.
Throw me down a ladder at once, you sorry by-blow outcome of a diseased sow and a spavined camel's perversions, else I'll see you given that swivel gun and all within it as the hottest clyster that your foul fundament ever has known!
He cruises Greater Van in a spavined truck-thing chopped down from an ancient Mercedes airporter, its roof lost under a wallowing rubber bag half-filled with natural gas.
Were the tribe's leaders wise, they would pack their putrid tents, gather their wormy children and haste as fast as their bow legs or spavined horses would take them back to the mountains and swamps where they and all other animals belonged.
Were the tribe's leaders wise, they would pack their putrid tents, gather their wormy children, and haste as fast as their bow legs or spavined horses would take them back to the mountains and swamps where they and all other animals belonged.
Now and then you can see one having a furious race with some spavined truck horse.