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Crib-biting   Listen
noun
Crib-biting  n.  Same as Cribbing, 4.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... numerous contingent evils, of ring-bones, curbs, splints, spavin, founder and weakness of the front legs, roaring or broken and thick wind, melanosis, specific ophthalmia, and blindness (the great French veterinary Huzard going so far as to say that a blind race could soon be formed), crib-biting, jibbing and ill-temper, are all plainly hereditary. Youatt sums up by saying "there is scarcely a malady to which the horse is subject which is not hereditary;" and M. Bernard adds that the doctrine "that there is scarcely a disease which does not ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin



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