Search for: Horses
2081 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHAMP.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To bite with repeated action of the teeth; as, a horse champs the bit.
2082 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHANGE.11 (Noah Webster)
To change a horse, or to change hand, is to turn or bear the horses head from one hand to the other, from the left to the right, or from the right to the left.
2083 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHAPERON.1 (Noah Webster)
… of horses which drew the herse in pompous funerals.
2084 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHARGER.4 (Noah Webster)
3. A horse used for attack.
2085 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHARIOT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A car or vehicle used formerly in war, drawn by two or more horses, and conveying two men each. These vehicles were sometimes armed with hooks or sythes.
2086 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHEST-FOUNDERING.1 (Noah Webster)
CHEST-FOUNDERING, n. A disease in horses, like the pleurisy or peripneumony in the human body.
2087 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHESTNUT-TREE.3 (Noah Webster)
… for horses. The scarlet-flowering horse-chestnut is a native of Carolina, Brazil and the East, and is admired for its beauty.
2088 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLAP.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To thrust or drive together; to put one thing to another by a hasty or sudden motion; followed by to, on or in; as, to clap the hand to the mouth; to clap spurs to a horse; to clap on a saddle.
2089 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLEFT.4 (Noah Webster)
2. A disease in horses; a crack on the bought of the pastern.
2090 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLEVY.1 (Noah Webster)
CLEVY, CLEVIS, n. An iron bent to the form of an ox bow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of a cartneap to hold the chain of the forward horse or oxen; or a draft iron on a plow.
2091 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLOY.6 (Noah Webster)
3. In farriery, to prick a horse in shoeing.
2092 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COACH.1 (Noah Webster)
COACH, n. A close vehicle for commodious traveling, borne on four wheels, and drawn by horses or other animals. It differs from a chariot in having seats in front, as well as behind. It is a carriage of state, or for pleasure, or for travelling.
2093 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COACH-HORSE.1 (Noah Webster)
COACH-HORSE, n. A horse used in drawing coaches.
2094 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COB.7 (Noah Webster)
6. A horse not castrated; a strong poney.
2095 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COCK-HORSE.1 (Noah Webster)
COCK-HORSE, a. On horse back; triumphant; exulting.
2096 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COFFIN.5 (Noah Webster)
4. In farriery, the hollow part of a horses hoof; or the whole hoof above the coronet, including the coffin-bone, which is a small spungy bone in the midst of the hoof, and possessing the whole form of the hoof.
2097 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COLLAR.4 (Noah Webster)
3. A part of a harness for the neck of a horse or other beast, used in draught.
2098 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COLLARAGE.1 (Noah Webster)
COLLARAGE, n. A tax or fine laid for the collars of wine-drawing horses.
2099 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COLT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The young of the equine genus of animals or horse kind. In America, colt is equally applied to the male or female, and this is unquestionable correct. The male is called a house-colt, and the female is called a filly.
2100 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COLTS-TOOTH.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A imperfect or superfluous tooth in young horses.