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2041 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BRIGADIER.1 (Noah Webster)
BRIGADIER, n. The general officer who commands a brigade, whether of horse or foot, and in rank next below a major-general.
2042 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BRILLIANT.6 (Noah Webster)
1. In the manege, a brisk, high-spirited horse, with a stately carriage.
2043 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BRILLS.1 (Noah Webster)
BRILLS, n. The hair on the eyelids of a horse.
2044 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BRING.7 (Noah Webster)
4. To cause to come; to cause to proceed from a distant place, in company, or at the same time; as, to bring a boat over a river; to bring a horse or carriage; to bring a cargo of dry goods.
2045 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BRISKET.1 (Noah Webster)
BRISKET, n. The breast of an animal; or that part of the breast that lies next to the ribs. The fore part of the neck of a horse, at the shoulder down to the fore legs.
2046 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BROKENWIND.1 (Noah Webster)
BROKENWIND, n. [break and wind.] A disease in horses, often accompanied with a preternatural enlargement of the lungs and heart, which disables them from bearing fatigue.
2047 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BROKENWINDED.1 (Noah Webster)
BROKENWINDED, a. Having short breath, as a horse.
2048 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BUTTERIS.1 (Noah Webster)
BUTTERIS, n. An instrument of steel set in wood, for paring the hoof of a horse.
2049 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CABALLINE.1 (Noah Webster)
CABALLINE, a. Pertaining to a horse; as caballine aloes, so called from its being given to horses as a purge.
2050 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CABRIOLE.1 (Noah Webster)
CABRIOLE, CABRIOLET, n. A gig; a one horse chair, a light carriage.
2051 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CADENCE.9 (Noah Webster)
6. In horsemanship, an equal measure or proportion observed by a horse in all his motions.
2052 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CALK.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In some parts of America, to set upon a horse or ox shoes armed with sharp points of iron, to prevent their slipping on ice; that is, to stop from slipping.
2053 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CALK.4 (Noah Webster)
CALK, n. Cauk. In New-England, a sharp pointed piece of iron on a shoe for a horse or an ox, called in Great Britain calking; used to prevent the animal from slipping.
2054 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CALTROP.3 (Noah Webster)
… the horses feet.
2055 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAN.3 (Noah Webster)
1. To be able; to have sufficient strength or physical power. One man can lift a weight which another can not. A horse can run a certain distance in a given time.
2056 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CANKER.9 (Noah Webster)
6. In farriery, a running thrush of the worst kind; a disease in horses feet, discharging a fetid matter from the cleft in the middle of the frog.
2057 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CANON-BIT.1 (Noah Webster)
CANON-BIT, n. That part of a bit let into a horses mouth.
2058 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CANTER.1 (Noah Webster)
CANTER, v.i. To move as a horse in a moderate gallop, raising the two fore feet nearly at the same time, with a leap or spring.
2059 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAPARISON.1 (Noah Webster)
CAPARISON, n. A cloth or covering laid over the saddle or furniture of a horse, especially a sumpter horse or horse of state.
2060 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAPELLET.1 (Noah Webster)
CAPELLET, n. A kind of swelling, like a wen, growing on the heel of the hock on a horse, and on the point of the elbow.