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CREPANCE

Volume 7 · 62 words · 1842 Edition

in the manège, a chop or cratch in a horse's leg, given by the spunges of the shoes of one of the hinder feet crossing 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 ealcei were with the toga.