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▪ I. spurred, a.|spɜːd|
[f. spur n.1]
1. Wearing or provided with a spur or spurs:
a. In pred. use, chiefly in the phr. booted (or † hosed) and spurred.
c1400Brut cc. 227 In maner of an Erl, worthely arraied,..and hosede and spored. c1450Contin. Brut 561 Þe Duyk of Burgeyn..was..slayne,..and after, put in-to a pitte, botit and spurret. 1632Massinger City Madam ii. ii, May the Great Fiend, booted & spurr'd,..Ride headlong down her throat. 1668H. More Div. Dial. i. xxii. (1713) 47, I, and that booted and spurred too. 1678–1833 [see booted ppl. a. 1 b]. 1864Chambers's Encycl. VI. 296/2 Three legs of man in armour,..garnished and spurred. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1875) III. 138 Others came forth on foot, booted and spurred.
b. In attrib. use.
1688J. Grubb Brit. Heroes vii, Castor the flame of fiery steed With well spur'd boots took down. 1842Lytton Zanoni vii. xv, With his spurred heels on the table. 1900Times 29 Jan. 10/3 In their..riding knickers, with brown..riding leggings, spurred boots [etc.].
c. spurred groat: (see quot.).
a1773Snelling View Silver Coin Scot. (1774) 6 From the mullet or spur in the quarters of the cross of this [David Bruce, 1329] and the two following kings, they were after⁓wards called Spurred Groats.
2. Furnished with sharp and hard spikes, claws, or the like.
1611Cotgr., Ergoté, spurred, or hauing spurres. 1648Hexham ii, Als een Haen gespoort, Spurred as a Cock. 1803Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 563 Subargenteous Holocentrus, with brownish back, large scales, and spurred gill-covers. 1884St. James's Gaz. 27 Nov. 5/2 Spurred hens are often excellent hens.
b. In specific names, as spurred centropyx, spurred chameleon, spurred lapwing, spurred towhee bunting, spurred tree frog.
1831Griffith tr. Cuvier IX. Syn. 31 Spurred Centropyx, Teius Calcaratus. c1882Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 365 The Spurred Tree Frog has a flat, depressed triangular head. 1884Coues N. Amer. Birds 397 Pipilo maculatus megalonyx, Spurred Towhee Bunting. 1887Cassell's Encycl. Dict. s.v., Spurred-chameleon, Chameleon calcarifer, from the country round Aden. 1891Cent. Dict. s.v. Spur-winged, Represented in South Africa by the black-backed spurred lapwing, Hoplopterus speciosus.
3. Of rye, etc.: Affected with ergot or spur.
1763Mills Pract. Husb. II. 405 When a spurred grain is broken. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) V. 54 Spurred rye, or rye vitiated by being infested with the clavis or ergot, a parasitic plant. 1832Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 51/1 On breaking a spurred seed you find within it a matter of a dull white colour, adhering to the violet skin which surrounds it. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 120 Amongst endemic affections may be included ergotism from the use of spurred rye as food.
4. Bot. Of the nature of, provided with, a spur or calcar; calcarate.
1824R. K. Greville Flora Edin. p. xlviii, A prominent or spurred nectary at the base. 1849Craig, Spurred valerian, a plant belonging to the genus Centranthus. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 512 Sepals more or less valvate in æstivation, upper one spurred.
5. Of ships: Provided with a beak or ram.
1805Duckworth in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1846) VII. 44 The Admiralty..giving me a spurred and doubled ship, the Formidable, yesterday out of dock.
▪ II. spurred, ppl. a.|spɜːd|
[f. spur v.1]
Pricked or urged on with a spur or spurs. Also fig.
1868Heavysege Jezebel i. 258 Thine utmost speed will lag behind The spurred impatience whereon rides my soul. 1898M. Hewlett Forest Lovers xxviii, Prosper was abroad on a spurred horse. |