spavin (spavin)

[Early mod. E. also spav en; 5802 hock-joint, or joint of the hind leg between the knee and the fetlock. See bog - spavin, blood spavin, bone - spavin.-2. In coal - mining, the clay underlying the coal. Also called under - clay, coal-clay, seat, seat - clay, etc. [Yorkshire, Eng.] Offspring in general; a swarming brood: applied, mostly in contempt, to human beings. To Sem the East, to Cham the South, the West To Iapheth falls; their seuerall scopes exprest: Their fruitful Spawn did all the World supply. fected with spavin; hence, figuratively, halting; crippled; very lame or limping. A blind, spavined, galled hack, that was only fit to be cut up for a dog-kennel. Goldsmith, Vicar, xiv. If they ever praise each other's bad drawings, or broken winded novels, or spavined verses, nobody ever supposed O. W. Holmes, Autocrat, i. it was from admiration. spawt, n. An obsolete form of spa . spawder, n . See spauder.. spawll, n. and v. See spall i. spaw12, n. See spall2 .