9 September 2018
spavined
[spav-ind]
adjective
1. suffering from or affected with spavin [1. a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin,) bony growth (bone spavin), or distention of the veins (blood spavin). 2. an excrescence or enlargement so formed.]
2. being of or marked by a decrepit or broken-down condition:
a spavined old school bus abandoned in a field.
Origin of spavined
late Middle English
1400-1450 First recorded in 1400-50, spavined is from the late Middle English word spaveyned. See spavin, -ed3
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Examples from the Web for spavined
Contemporary Examples
It reminded him of the man who had a poor old lean, bony, spavined horse, with swelled legs.
Did Abraham Lincoln Actually Say That Obama Quote?
James M. Cornelius
September 8, 2012
Historical Examples
Alfred was provided with a rickety buggy and a spavined horse.
Watch Yourself Go By
Al. G. Field
I can size a player up as quick as a horse buyer can a spavined nag.
Baseball Joe at Yale
Lester Chadwick
Say, wouldst thou rise with a lantern jaw and a spavined knee?
Pierre; or The Ambiguities
Herman Melville
He rode on a bob-tailed, big-headed, spavined and spotted horse.
The King of Ireland’s Son
Padraic Colum
He got down off the bob-tailed, big-headed, spavined and spotted horse, and came in.
The King of Ireland’s Son
Padraic Colum
“Walks like a pair of spavined sugar tongs,” was Waddles’ comment.
Fore!
Charles Emmett Van Loan
“Looks like that car is spavined, or something,” commented Bill.
The Border Boys Across the Frontier
Fremont B. Deering
And they’re all tryin’ to borry money off’m me and sell me spavined hosses.
The Skipper and the Skipped
Holman Day
The position assumed by the spavined horse is often characteristic.
Lameness of the Horse
John Victor Lacroix
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Today’s quote
Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
– Marcel Proust
On this day
9 September 1543 – Mary Stuart crowned ‘Queen of Scots’. She was 9 months old.
9 September 1828 – birth of Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, (‘Anna Karenina‘, ‘War and Peace‘). Died 20 November 1910.
9 September 1890 – birth of Harlan Sanders who eventually becomes a Colonel and chickens throughout Kentucky, and ultimately the rest of the world, are never the same again as he invents Kentucky Fried Chicken. Died 16 December 1980.
9 September 1907 – Birth of Horst Wessel. Berlin leader of the Nazi Party’s Stormtroopers. Wessel had written the lyrics to a song which became known as ‘Horst-Wessel-Lied‘ (The Horst Wessel Song). Later, it became the anthem for the Nazi Party and was renamed as ‘Deutschlandlied‘. Wessel was shot on 14 January 1930 by members of the Communist Party. As Horst lay seriously wounded in hospital, Joseph Goebbels labelled those responsible for the shooting as ‘degenerate subhuman Communists’. Wessel died in hospital on 23 February 1930 from blood poisoning. Following Wessel’s death, Goebbels portrayed Wessel as a matyr while targeting and dehumanising Communists. The Nazis used it as an excuse to implement authoritarian measures against Communists and other dissidents. In 1933, with the ascent to power by the Nazis, the person convicted of shooting Weller, was taken from jail and illegally executed. In 1935, two other people believed to be involved in it were put on trial and subsequently beheaded. Goebbels had been looking for a matyr, initially using Albert Leo Schlageter, who had been executed by the French for trying to blow up a train. Wessel provided the perfect matyr for Goebbels, because of his killers being Communists. Goebbels deliberately used Christian overtones in a eulogy he wrote about Wessel: ‘A Christian Socialist! A man who calls out through his deeds: ‘Come to me, I shall redeem you!’ … A divine element works in him. making him the man he is and causing him to act in this way and no other. One man must set an example and offer himself up as a sacrifice! Well, then, I am ready!‘ The Nazi-owned newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, described Wessel as ‘hero of the brown revolution‘ and referred to his ‘sacrificial death‘ that ‘passionately inflamed millions who followed‘.
9 September 2004 – Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, bombed. 10 people killed.