Hoofed

Deer have been rightly characterized as hoofed rats, eating anything that grows. ❋ Jhetley (2005)

Under the systems of older naturalists the thick-skinned animals were lumped together under the order UNGULATA, or _hoofed animals_, subdivided by Cuvier into _Pachydermata_, or thick-skinned non-ruminants, and _Ruminantia_, or ruminating animals; but neither the elephant nor the coney can be called hoofed animals, and in other respects they so entirely differ from the rest that recent systematists have separated them into three distinct orders -- _Proboscidea_, _Hyracoidea_ and _Ungulata_, which classification I here adopt. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

They have the best deals on all Broadway shows, from Donny Osmond has "hoofed" his way to very the top of the scoreboard with partner ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the midst were the deep impressions of the splay-hoofed game, and all about, everywhere, were the lighter footmarks of the wolves. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The highly infectious disease is often fatal for cloven-hoofed animals including cows, sheep, pigs and goats, causing blisters on the mouth and feet. ❋ Unknown (2011)

On the dollar index I was damn close to my prediction until the Dec rally hoofed me in the head. ❋ Canadian Silver Bug/Green Assassin Brigade (2009)

Five pages previously, Grzimek writes that rabbits and hares are not rodents, but that they form a separate group, the lagomorphs, and, “According to the composition of the blood fluid, the lagomorphs are closer to some hoofed mammals than to rodents.” ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

For example, most hoofed herbivores (ungulates, if you like) are able to run very quickly, very soon after they are born (almost always less than a day). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Burnley's consolation came via a farcical mix-up involving Bridge and Green, who between them should have hoofed the ball to safety. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It was misshapen with horns and stood slowly on two hoofed feet. ❋ L. A. Banks (2011)

When rinderpest was eradicated in the 1960s, the wildebeest and other hoofed species bounced back. ❋ Unknown (2011)

THEY'RE STARTING! and hoofed it away from her, not giving her time to give him his water bottle, towel or banana. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The size and endurance of hoofed beasts on this continent; their speed, coordination, and quicksilver reactions, their social structure and communication abilities — wolves sang these things into their present form. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just think how healthy we all would be if, when taking public transportation, we went 1,000 feet beyond our destination and then hoofed it back. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Another striking image: a late painting from 1902 called "Barbaric Tales," which depicts an old friend who had died as a cloven-hoofed specter, accompanied by a seated nude woman in a Buddha-like pose. ❋ Stan Sesser (2011)

He was coming right at me-red eyes and all-like a four-hoofed locomotive. ❋ Unknown (2009)