ODDS AND ENDS, 



Containing Provincial and Obsolete Terms, ijc 



Anbury. — A term applied to lumpa raised by the bite of the gadfly, 

 and other excrescences. The writer of " The Gentleman's Jockey," a book 

 of the seventeenth century, says : "An anbury is a bloody wart on any 

 part of horse's body. Care is th9 hot iron. Sear the anbury down to 

 the bottom, then mix a little beaten verdigreasa and train oil and anoint 

 the place once a day till it ba whole ; or take the juice of plantain and mix 

 it with vinegar, honey, and powder of alum, and with it anoint tin sore." 



Anticor, Anticow.— Described by old writers as a swelling along the 

 breast and belly ; extending back to the sheath, says Clater. It is by Bracken 

 and others described as a milignant swelling, which, beginning in the 

 breast, rises in the gullet, threatening suffocation. The name was given 

 because of the swelling first appearing against the heart. It is loosely 

 applied to any affection of the chest. In the "Gentleman's Jockey" it is 

 described as the breast pain, or other sickness proceeding from the heart. 

 These diseases proceed from too rank and gross feeding and much fatness, 

 The signs are, a faltering in his forelegs, an inability to bow down his neck 

 and a trembling all over his body. Cure — Let blood, and give 2 spoonful 

 diapente in a quart of ale or beer two mornings together. 



Bishoping".— This is the cant term applied to the practice of horse 

 copers who alter the apparent age of the horse by tampering with his 

 teeth. 



Bitch-Daughter.— When a horse was ill from gross feeding, or over- 

 done by hard work and hard usage, superstition said it was ridden by the 

 " Bitch-daughter," an evil spirit, a meaningless but comfortable way of 

 overlooking their own negl-.et ; and to cure it a sickle, a horseshoe, and a 

 hollow stone were hunj over hia back. This practice is referred to in 

 Butler's " Hudibras," when speaking of the quack doctor " Sidrophel": 



Chase evil spirits away by dint 

 Of sickle, horseshoe, hollow flint. 



