expediate

expediate
To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.

EXPEDIATE&mdash;is a term tranſmitted from one book to another by former writers, but is at preſent little uſed in either <span style="font-variant:small-caps">theory</span> or <span style="font-variant:small-caps">practice</span>. It implies the cutting out the centrical ball of the foot of a dog, or ſuch claws as ſhall totally prevent his purſuit of game. In earlier times, when the <span style="font-variant:small-caps">forest laws</span> were more rigidly enforced, the owner of any dog not expediated, living within the diſtric‍t, was liable to a fine for non-obedience.


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