FARRIER  , and FARRIERY (from

Lat. ferrarius, a black-smith, ferrum, iron) . Farrier is the name given generally either to the professional shoer of horses or in a more extended sense to a practitioner of the veterinary art; and farriery is the term for his business . Primarily the art of farriery is identical with that of the blacksmith, in so far as he makes and fixes shoes on horses (see HORSE-SHOES); he is liable in law for negligence, as one who holds himself out as skilled; and he has a lien on the animal for his expenses . William the Conqueror is supposed to have introduced horse-shoeing into England, and the art had an important place through the middle ages, the days of chivalry, and the later developments of equitation . In modern times it has been closely allied with the general progress in veterinary science, and in the knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the horse's foot and hoof . See Fisher, The Farrier (1893); Lungwitz, Text-Book of Horse-shoeing (Eng. trans., 1898) .