BISHOPINa. 753 



Bishoping 



is a fraudulent operation, which consists in giving a false appear- 

 ance of youth to the incisors of an old horse (Fig. 211) by 

 shortening the length of two or more of them and making cavities 

 in them to resemble " marks." The trick can be easily seen 

 by the absence of enamel round the false " marks " ; by the 

 spaces between the upper and lower incisors, when the jaws are 

 brought together (Fig. 212); by the shape of the tables; by the 

 shape of the teeth ; by the narrowness of the neck of the teeth ; 

 and by the marks of the file. 



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