Search for: Horses
2101 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMMISSARY.5 (Noah Webster)
… of horses has the inspection of the artillery horses; and the commissary of stores has charge of all the stores of the artillery.
2102 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMPANY.3 (Noah Webster)
… of horses.
2103 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONFINE.5 (Noah Webster)
… confine horses or cattle to an inclosure; to confine water in a pond, to dam; to confine a garrison in a town; to confine a criminal in prison.
2104 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CORN.3 (Noah Webster)
… and horses. In Great Britain, corn is generally applied to wheat, rye, oats and barley. In the United States, it has the same general sense, but by custom, it is appropriated …
2105 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CORNER.9 (Noah Webster)
Corner-teeth of a horse, the foreteeth between the middling teeth and the tushes, two above and two below, on each side of the jaw, which shoot when the horse is four years and a half old.
2106 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CORNET.5 (Noah Webster)
3. A company of cavalry; a troop of horse. [Not used.]
2107 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CORNET.6 (Noah Webster)
4. The cornet of a horse [coronet] is the lowest part of his pastern, that runs round the coffin and is distinguished by the hair that joins and covers the upper part of the hoof.
2108 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CORONET.4 (Noah Webster)
Coronet of a horse. [See Cornet .]
2109 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COUNTENANCE.6 (Noah Webster)
3. The face or look of a beast; as a horse of a good countenance.
2110 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COUNTER.9 (Noah Webster)
Counter of a horse, that part of a horses forehand which lies between the shoulder and under the neck.
2111 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COUNTERMARK.4 (Noah Webster)
3. An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses, that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.
2112 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COUNTERMARK.6 (Noah Webster)
COUNTERMARK, v.t. To mark the corner teeth of a horse by an artificial cavity, to disguise his age.
2113 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COUNTERTIME.2 (Noah Webster)
1. In the manege, the defense or resistance of a horse that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman or the bad temper of the horse.
2114 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COUPLE.2 (Noah Webster)
… a horse and an ox a couple, unless we add a generic term. Of a horse and ox feeding in a pasture, we should say, a couple of animals. Among huntsmen and soldiers, brace …
2115 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COURSER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A swift horse; a runner; a war-horse; a word used chiefly in poetry.
2116 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COVER.20 (Noah Webster)
11. To shelter; to protect; to defend. A squadron of horse covered the troops on the retreat.
2117 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CRATCHES.1 (Noah Webster)
CRATCHES, n. [G., the itch, cratches; to scratch.] In the manege, a swelling on the pastern, under the fetlock, and sometimes under the hoof of a horse.
2118 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CREPANCE.1 (Noah Webster)
CREPANCE, CREPANE, n. [L., to burst.] A chop or cratch in a horses leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot crossing and striking the other hind foot. It sometimes degenerates into an ulcer.
2119 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CREST-FALLEN.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Having the upper part of the neck hanging on one side, as a horse.
2120 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CRIB.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The manger of a stable, in which oxen and cows feed. In America, it is distinguished from a rack for horses.