fetter bone (feterbon)

terlock and fetlock ) + bone.] The great pas tern or first phalangeal bone of a horse's foot, succeeded by the coro P ph2 nary and coffin-bone, and articulating with the cannon-bone at the fetlock-joint. fetter-bush (fet'erbush), n. An ericaceous evergreen shrub, Andromeda nitid a, of ph3 the pine-barrens of the southern United States. It bears numerous fragrant white flowers in axillary clusters. fettered (fet'èrd), p. a. In zool., having the feet stretched backward and apparently unfit for the ph1 $1 Hind Foot of Horse, showing Fetter-bone. S m, lower end of metatarsus; /, fetlock-joint; s, i net a tar so phalangeal sesamoid bone; ph 1, proximal phalanx, or fetter-bone (large pastern: pastern joint; ph 2. median phalanx, or coronary bone (small pastern); c, coffin-joint; ph 3, distal pha lanx, or coffin-bone, supporting the hoof; sesamoid bone (navicular). I, interphalangeal purpose of walking, as in the seal, or concealed within the integuments of the abdomen. fetterle (fet'er-les), a . [ fetter + -le .] Free from fetters or restraint; unfettered. Yet this affected strain gives me a tongue As fetterle as an Emperor's. Marston, Malcontent, i. 4. IMG:content-1257.png:[blocks in formation] fettle (fet'l), v.; pret. and pp. fettled, ppr. fet tling. [ explanation of the E. word. See fit i, v.] I. trans. 1. To bind; tie up. In the tyxte, there thyse two [poverty and patience] arn in teme [team] layde, Hit arn fettled in on [one] forme. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 38. In fettling the furnace,.. oxide of iron bricks moulded to fit the furnace are built in and then baked in situ, and fettled in much the same way as Dank's furnace. Encyc. Brit., XIII. 324. Fettled ale or porter, ale or porter sweetened with sugar and seasoned with a little ginger and nutmeg. [Prov. Eng.] II. in trans. To potter; set about in a fu y, pottering way; do trifling busine . [Prov. Eng.] When you [the footman] know your master is most busy in company, come in, and pretend to fettle about the room; and if he chides, say you thought he rang the bell. Swift, Directions to Servants, iii.