TYRE — UTERUS 



Tyre. — The outside strip of metal or india-rubber which 

 encircles and protects the felloe of a wheel. (See Felloe^) 



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Ulna, — One of the bones of the fore-arm. (See Bodies, 

 Fore-legs.) 



Under-carriage is that part of a vehicle which is under 

 the body, and used for its suspension, and is well expressed 

 in the American term of running gear. (See Lock.) 



Unicorn Team. — A team of three horses, one of which 

 is driven as leader, and the others as wheelers. (See Pickaxe 

 Team, Random Teain.) 



Unsoundness. — The question of defining the expression 

 is difficult, the most practical attempt to do so having been 

 made by the Royal Commission on Horse Breeding, who, 

 in their Report of 1890, expressed the opinion that the 

 following infirmities should disqualify stallions, viz., cataract, 

 spavin (bone), navicular, ring-bone, roaring, unsound feet, 

 whistling. The councils of the different spring shows held 

 in London are far more indefinite in their expressions of 

 opinion ; in fact, they leave the question of passing or reject- 

 ing a horse entirely to their veterinary inspectors. Nor are 

 the societies entirely in unison in their instructions to these 

 gentlemen, as the Shire Horse and Hackney Horse Societies 

 specifically allude to hereditary unsoundness as a cause of 

 rejection, whilst the Hunters' Improvement and Polo and 

 Riding Pony Society omit the prefix, and simply adopt the 

 word unsound. (See Soufidness.) 



Uterus. — The womb. 



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