pastern, pasterne, pastron

[O. Fr. pasturon (Fr. pâturon ), from pasture = pasture, fodder; so called because when a horse was turned out to pasture he was tethered by a cord pa ing round the pastern; Ital. pasturale.] 1. That part of the leg of a horse between the joint next the foot and the coronet of the hoof. The first phalanx of the foot is called the great pastern bone; the second, the small pastern or coronary; the third, the coffin-bone, which is inclosed in the foot. 2. A shackle for horses while a . Great pastern; b. Le pastern; c . Coffin-bone. pasturing. 3. A clog, a tether. Pastern. "She had better have worn pasterns ." Beaum. & Flet.: The Chances, i. 8. 4. Applied in burlesque to the human leg. "So straight she walked, and on her pasterns high." Dryden: Wife of Bath's Tale , 32. pastern-joint, s. The joint in a horse's leg next the foot; it corresponds to the human knuckle. Pas-teûr', subst . [A celebrated French biologist, born 1822.] (See compound.) Pasteur's-solution, s . Biol.: A solution in which to cultivate ferments from spores. There are many for mule; the following is the most recent: Sugar-candy, 200 grms.; pota ium bitartrate, 10 grm.; ammonium bitartrate, 05 grm.; ammonium sulphate and ash of yeast, each 1.5 grm.; pure distilled water as much IMG:content-0735.png:[blocks in formation] (4) Shaving paste : A kind of perfumed soap which phobia propounded by Dr. Pasteur, the principle lathers readily. paste-eel, 8. of which consists injecting into the circulation of the patient a fluid impregnated with the virus of rabies, that virus having been attenuated and Zool .: A popular name for Anguillula glut in is . weakened by succe ive pa age through the sys [ANGUILLULA.] IMG:content-0736.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Paint ., & c .: A work of art, of original conception as to design, but a direct copy of the style and manner of some other painter. păs-tic he', s. (Fr.) The same as PASTICCIO, II. (q. v.) păs-til, păs-tille', s. [Fr. pastille, from Latin past ill us a little roll or loaf, dim in. from past us = food.] 1. An aromatic paste for burning, as a fumigator or disinfectant. It is composed of gum benzoin, sandal-wood, spices, charcoal-powder, . 2. A kind of aromatic sugared confection. 3. A pastel (q. v.).