A dictionary of sports; or, companion to the field, the forest, and the river side. Containing explanations of every term applicable to racing, shooting, hunting, fishing, hawking, archery, etc. ... With essays upon all national amusements / By Harry Harewood.

  • Harewood, Harry, pseud.?
Date:
1835
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Credit: A dictionary of sports; or, companion to the field, the forest, and the river side. Containing explanations of every term applicable to racing, shooting, hunting, fishing, hawking, archery, etc. ... With essays upon all national amusements / By Harry Harewood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ALL neys, or after extraordinary fatigue. Its advantages, however, have been frequently abused. ALEXIS. A chestnut colt, foaled 1770, bred by Mr. Scawen, was got by Herod, dam by Shakspeare ; (sister to Lodge’s Roan Mare) by Parker; great great grandam by Dale’s horse [bred by Lord Cardi- gan, and got by the duke of Rich- mond’s Turk, out of a full sister to Leeds] great great great grandam, by Whynot; great great great great grandam, by Wilkinson’s Bay Ara- bian out of a Natural Barb Mare, the property of Lord Arlington (se- cretary of state to Charles the Se- cond), to whom she was sent as a present by the emperor of Morocco. Alexis started twenty times, and was ten times a winner. In 1774, he became the property of Sir Charles Bunbury : in 1776, he raced twice only, but proved unsuccessful ; in 1777, he covered at Barton, at five guineas. His winnings are esti- mated at 3,675 guineas. ALIMENT. See Foon. ALL ABROAD. When a horse is pushed beyond his strength, and the fore legs spread out, the animal is said to be “all abroad.” ALL-AGE Puares or Sraxes. Those for which any horse, mare, or gelding may enter, carrying weight according to age, with allowances, and in certain cases extra weight, according to circumstances. ALLAY. To allay a pheasant is to carve it when served up at table. Obsolete. ALLODIAL LANDS. Where an inheritance is held without ac- knowledgement to any lord or supe- rior, in contradistinction to feudal. There are no allodial lands in this country, all being held either me- diately or immediately of the king. Lords paramount of manors were anciently styled allodarii. ALLOWANCE (in Racing). The weight, generally three pounds, which mares and geldings are al- lowed to carry less than horses ; ALT 7 also the difference in weight, made in stakes to colts or fillies, the get or produce of an: untried sire or dam, viz. one whose produce has never run in public. ALLURE. See Lure. PicEon. ALOES. A cathartic juice ex- tracted from the common aloes tree. At present various sorts are met with, distinguished either by the place whence they are derived, by the species of the plants, or by some difference in the juices them- selves. Those commonly sold in the shops may be arranged in three classes, viz. 1. Common or Barba- does aloes; 2. Caballine or fetid aloes, chiefly distinguished by its strong, rank smell; and 3. Soco- trine or Cape aloes.. Of the aloes used in veterinary practice, a mo- dern writer observes, “ In a public establishment like the college, where the horse, under physic, can be ex- ercised as much as the head of the establishment chooses to order, or where in fact he can be exercised till the physic does work; or in a cavalry regiment, where the same facilities exist, Cape aloes may be used; yet even there the Barbadoes are preferable, as more certain, and far less liable to gripe.” Of all the known purges administered to the horse, this is unquestionably the most efficacious. All the experi- ments made on oils by Mr. W. Per- cival, as cathartics in horses, have proved them to be uncertain, if not dangerous, in their operation. ALPINE HARE. See Harr. ALTERATIVES. Such medi- cines as have a power of changing the constitution, without any sensi- ble increase or diminution of the natural evacuations. The following alterative ball has been administered with the greatest success :—Cinna- bar of antimony, three ounces ; bal- sam of sulphur, two ounces; cam- phor, one ounce ; nitre, four ounces. To be made into ten balls, one of which may be given weekly to horses