Definition of horse

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Horse (n.) Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot..

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Encolure :: Encolure (n.) The neck of horse.
Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f
Prick :: Prick (v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.
Countermark :: Countermark (n.) An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age..
Bar :: Bar (n.) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed..
Shoer :: Shoer (n.) One who fits shoes to the feet; one who furnishes or puts on shoes; as, a shoer of horses..
Sweater :: Sweat (v. i.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.
Gallop :: Gallop (v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds..
Windgall :: Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
Roan :: Roan (n.) A roan horse.
Lunge :: Lunge (v. t.) To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter..
Weaving :: Weaving (n.) An incessant motion of a horse's head, neck, and body, from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing the shuttle..
Homologous :: Homologous (a.) Being of the same typical structure; having like relations to a fundamental type to structure; as, those bones in the hand of man and the fore foot of a horse are homologous that correspond in their structural relations, that is, in their relations to the type structure of the fore limb in vertebrates..
Pad :: Pad (n.) A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising..
Tush :: Tush (n.) A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses..
Regiment :: Regiment (n.) A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten..
Jump :: "Jump (v. t.) To cause to jump; as, he jumped his horse across the ditch..
Falcade :: Falcade (n.) The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets..
Corral :: Corral (v. t.) To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything..
Barb :: Barb (n.) The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors..
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