[f. SPUR sb.1]
1. Wearing or provided with a spur or spurs: a. In pred. use, chiefly in the phr. booted (or † hosed) and spurred.
c. 1400. Brut, CC. 227. In maner of an Erl, worthely arraied,… and hosede and spored.
c. 1450. Contin. Brut, 561. Þe Duyk of Burgeyn … was … slayne,… and after, put in-to a pitte, botit and spurret.
1632. Massinger, City Madam, II. ii. May the Great Fiend, booted & spurr’d,… Ride headlong down her throat.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., I. xxii. (1713), 47. I, and that booted and spurred too.
1678–1833. [see BOOTED ppl. a. 1 b].
1864. Chambers’s Encycl., VI. 296/2. Three legs of man in armour,… garnished and spurred.
1869. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1875), III. 138. Others came forth on foot, booted and spurred.
b. In attrib. use.
1688. J. Grubb, Brit. Heroes, vii. Castor the flame of fiery steed With well spur’d boots took down.
1842. Lytton, Zanoni, VII. xv. With his spurred heels on the table.
1900. Times, 29 Jan., 10/3. In their … riding knickers, with brown … riding leggings, spurred boots [etc.].
c. Spurred groat: (see quot.).
a. 1773. Snelling, View Silver Coin Scot. (1774), 6. From the mullet or spur in the quarters of the cross of this [David Bruce, 1329] and the two following kings, they were afterwards called Spurred Groats.
2. Furnished with sharp and hard spikes, claws, or the like.
1611. Cotgr., Ergoté, spurred, or hauing spurres.
1648. Hexham, II. Als een Haen gespoort, Spurred as a Cock.
1803. Shaw, Gen. Zool., IV. II. 563. Subargenteous Holocentrus, with brownish back, large scales, and spurred gill-covers.
1884. St. James’s Gaz., 27 Nov., 5/2. Spurred hens are often excellent hens.
b. In specific names, as spurred centropyx, chameleon, lapwing, towhee bunting, tree frog.
1831. Griffith, trans. Cuvier, IX. Syn. 31. Spurred Centropyx, Teius Calcaratus.
c. 1882. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., IV. 365. The Spurred Tree Frog has a flat, depressed triangular head.
1884. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 397. Pipilo maculatus megalonyx, Spurred Towhee Bunting.
1887. Cassell’s Encycl. Dict., s.v., Spurred-chameleon, Chameleon calcarifer, from the country round Aden.
1891. Cent. Dict., s.v. Spur-winged, Represented in South Africa by the black-backed spurred lapwing, Hoplopterus speciosus.
3. Of rye, etc.: Affected with ergot or spur.
1763. Mills, Pract. Husb., II. 405. When a spurred grain is broken.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), V. 54. Spurred rye, or rye vitiated by being infested with the clavis or ergot, a parasitic plant.
1832. Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VI. 51/1. On breaking a spurred seed you find within it a matter of a dull white colour, adhering to the violet skin which surrounds it.
1876. Bristowe, Th. & Pract. Med. (1878), 120. Amongst endemic affections may be included ergotism from the use of spurred rye as food.
4. Bot. Of the nature of, provided with, a spur or calcar; calcarate.
1824. R. K. Greville, Flora Edin., p. xlviii. A prominent or spurred nectary at the base.
1849. Craig, Spurred valerian, a plant belonging to the genus Centranthus.
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot., 512. Sepals more or less valvate in æstivation, upper one spurred.
5. Of ships: Provided with a beak or ram.
1805. Duckworth, in Nicolas, Disp. Nelson (1846), VII. 44. The Admiralty … giving me a spurred and doubled ship, the Formidable, yesterday out of dock.
