pastern bone (pastern bon)

Either one of the two proximal phalanges of a horse's foot, the first phalanx being the great pastern, art i cum a king believe to puff at a narghile, in which, however, lated above with the cannon-bone at the pastern-joint, and the second phalanx the small pas tern, articulated below with the third phalanx, or coffin-bone, inclosed in the hoof. These bones, great and small, correspond respectively to the first and second phalanges of the middle finger or toe of a man's hand or foot. See cuts under hoof, solidungulate, and Peris so dactyl a.