Search for: Horses
2061 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAPRIOLE.1 (Noah Webster)
… a horse makes in the same place without advancing, in such a manner that when he is at the highth of the leap, he jerks out with his hind legs, even and near. It differs …
2062 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAR.3 (Noah Webster)
1. A small vehicle moved on wheels, usually drawn by one horse.
2063 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CARGO.1 (Noah Webster)
… from horses, cattle and other things carried on deck. The person employed by a merchant to proceed with, oversee and dispose of the lading, is called a supercargo …
2064 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CARNEY.1 (Noah Webster)
CARNEY, n. A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that they cannot eat.
2065 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CARRY.51 (Noah Webster)
2. To bear the head in a particular manner, as a horse. When a horse holds his head high, with an arching neck, he is said to carry well. When he lowers his head too much, he is said to carry low.
2066 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CARRYING.5 (Noah Webster)
Carrying wind, among horsemen, is a tossing of the nose, as high as the horses ears.
2067 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CART.2 (Noah Webster)
… by horses. In America, horse-carts are used mostly in cities, and ox-carts in the country.
2068 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CART-HORSE.1 (Noah Webster)
CART-HORSE, n. A horse that draws a cart.
2069 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CART-JADE.1 (Noah Webster)
CART-JADE, n. A sorry horse; a horse used in drawing, or fit only for the cart.
2070 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAST.21 (Noah Webster)
Both chariot and horse were cast into a dead sleep. Psalm 76:6 .
2071 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CATAPHRACT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. In the ancient military art, a piece of heavy defensive armor, formed of cloth or leather, strengthened with scales or links, used to defend the breast, or whole body, or even the horse as well as the rider.
2072 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CATTLE.2 (Noah Webster)
… camels, horses, asses, all the varieties of domesticated horned beasts or the bovine genus, sheep of all kinds and goats, and perhaps swine. In this general sense …
2073 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CATTLE.3 (Noah Webster)
… horses. Yet it is probable that a law, giving damages for a trespass committed by cattle breaking into an inclosure, would be adjudged to include horses.
2074 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAVALRY.1 (Noah Webster)
CAVALRY, n. A body of military troops on horses; a general term, including light-horse, dragoons, and other bodies of men, serving on horseback.
2075 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAVEZON.1 (Noah Webster)
CAVEZON, CAVESSON, n. A sort of nose-band, of iron, leather or wood, sometimes flat, and sometimes hollow or twisted, which is put on the nose of a horse to wring it, and thus to forward the suppling and breaking of him.
2076 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CELERITY.2 (Noah Webster)
… of horse or of a fowl. We speak of the velocity of sound or of light, or of a planet in its orbit. This distinction however is not general, nor can the different uses …
2077 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CENTAUR.2 (Noah Webster)
… . It has been supposed that this fancied monster originated among the Lapithae, a tribe in Thessaly, who first invented the art of breaking horses. But the …
2078 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHAIR.8 (Noah Webster)
7. A two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.
2079 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHAISE.1 (Noah Webster)
CHAISE, n. s as z. A two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig. It is open or covered.
2080 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHAMBREL.1 (Noah Webster)
CHAMBREL, n. The joint or bending of the upper part of a horses hind leg. In New England pronounced gambrel, which see.