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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hoof \Hoof\, n.; pl {Hoofs}, very rarely {Hooves}. [OE. hof,
AS h[=o]f; akin to D. hoef, G1huf, OHG. huof, Icel. h[=o]fr,
Sw hof, Dan. hov; cf Russ. kopuito Skr. [,c]apha.
[root]225.]
1. The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the
feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc
On burnished hooves his war horse trode. --Tennyson.
2. A hoofed animal; a beast.
Our cattle also shall go with us there shall not a
hoof be left behind. --Ex. x. 26.
3. (Geom.) See {Ungula}.
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