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单词 mark of mouth
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mark of mouth
a. A depression formed by a fold in the enamel of a horse's incisor tooth, which by its appearance and gradual wearing away gives some indication of the age of the animal. Also more fully mark of mouth.
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tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 886 (MED) The markis of their age ar lost at seuen.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §754 At eight yeares old, the Tooth is smooth, and the Hole gone, And then they say; That the Marke is out of the Horses Mouth.
1680 London Gaz. No. 1562/4 A Bright Bay Gelding, near 15 hands high,..the mark out of his mouth.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 41 We may..say..as the Jockeys do of a Horse of eight or nine Years old, who has no longer certain Teeth in his Mouth; that his Mark is out.
1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 134 This horse is quite passed mark of mouth.
1831 W. Youatt Horse viii. 144 A method of prolonging the mark in the lower nippers..is called bishoping.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 537 Mark, the hollow upon the top of a young horse's teeth which wears down with years.
1962 J. Onslow Bowler-hatted Cowboy ii. 27 They [sc. two horses] seemed to be, by mark of mouth, not more than eight..years old.
1972 M. Rose Horseman's Notebk. (1975) 118 The mark or infundibulum—a dark depression on the tables of the teeth..surrounded by a distinct, narrow ring of enamel.
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