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CREPANCE

Volume 6 · 62 words · 1810 Edition

in the manege, a chop or cratch in a horse's leg, given by the spunges of the shoes of one of the hinder feet croffing and striking against the other hinder foot. This cratch degenerates into an ulcer.

CREPIDÆ, among the Romans, a kind of slippers or shoes, which were always worn with the pallium, as the calcei were with the toga.