SURBATING

—is a term getting into disuse, and with the last of the old school of farriery will in a few years be buried in total oblivion: this it well deserves to be, as a word without either meaning or derivation. Insignificant as it sounds, it has been, till within a very few years, used to signify a hoof so battered , bruised , and worn , with bad shoeing, bad shoes, and sometimes with no shoes at all , that the horse, having hardly any feet to stand upon, was then said to be surbated ; which, in more explanatory and comprehensive language, is neither more or le than the sole of the foot so completely destroyed, (by the means before-mentioned,) that a horse in such situation is now said to be foot-foundered, who was formerly said to be surbated.