Definition of "spavin" [spav•in]

• Bog spavin. (noun)
• Bone spavin. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "-- A spavin is a chronic inflammation of the articular faces of the hock bones, ligaments and synovial membranes."
• "The above is recommended in outside callous, such as spavin, ringbone, curbs, windgalls, etc. etc."
• "Just last Wednesday evening I was seeing to a horse over on Atlantic—a case of bog spavin—and as chance would have it, a fire broke out in one of the warehouses, and there he was, already on the scene, furiously scribbling notes."