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Definition of Animal leg
1. Noun. The leg of an animal.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Animal Leg
Literary usage of Animal leg
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"... among others, by Sawamura and Permin, who were both able to show that when an
animal's leg has been absolutely separated from all nerve connection with ..."
2. Sculpture: The Reliefs from the Theater by Mary C. Sturgeon (1977)
"The position of the animal's leg as preserved suggests a quiet, walking pose,
not a moment of struggle, while all other depictions of this scene portray ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"Turk. but, thigh of an animal, leg of mutton. Button. Fr. bouton, a button, bud,
pimple, any small projection, from bouter, to push, thrust forwards, ..."
4. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Edward William Cox, Great BRitain Magistrates' cases (1880)
"... and that she ought to be destroyed ; that the animal's leg became worse, and
that the respondent nevertheless did not have it slaughtered because, ..."
5. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1844)
"Acetate of strychnine was introduced into a wound in an animal's leg, while the
circulation was uninterrupted, and death, with convulsions, &c., ..."
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