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2121 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CRONET.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The hair which grows over the top of a horses hoof.
2122 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CROP-EAR.1 (Noah Webster)
CROP-EAR, n. [crop and ear.] A horse whose ears are cropped.
2123 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CROUP.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The rump of a fowl; the buttocks of a horse, or extremity of the reins above the hips.
2124 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CROUPADE.1 (Noah Webster)
CROUPADE, CROOPADE, n. [from croup, or its root.] In the manege, a leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs, as if he drew them up to his belly.
2125 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CROWN-SCAB.1 (Noah Webster)
CROWN-SCAB, n. A scab formed round the corners of a horses hoof, a cancerous and painful sore.
2126 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CRUPPER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. In the manege, the buttocks of a horse; the rump.
2127 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CRUPPER.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A strap of leather which is buckled to a saddle, and passing under a horses tail, prevents the saddle from being cast forward onto the horses neck.
2128 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CRUPPER.4 (Noah Webster)
CRUPPER, v.t. To put a crupper on; as, to crupper a horse.
2129 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURB.2 (Noah Webster)
… the horse. It consists of three parts; the hook, fixed to the eye of the branch; the chain or links; and the two rings or mails.
2130 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURB.6 (Noah Webster)
4. A hard and callous swelling on the hind part of the hock of a horses leg, attended with stiffness, and sometimes pain and lameness. A tumor on the inside of a horses hoof. A swelling beneath the elbow of a horses hoof.
2131 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURB.8 (Noah Webster)
1. To restrain; to guide and manage; as a horse.
2132 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURRICLE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A chaise or carriage, with two wheels, drawn by two horses abreast.
2133 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURRY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To rub and clean with a comb; as, to curry a horse.
2134 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURRY-COMB.1 (Noah Webster)
CURRY-COMB, n. [See Comb .] An iron instrument or comb, for rubbing and cleaning horses.
2135 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURTAL.1 (Noah Webster)
CURTAL, n. A horse with a docked tail.
2136 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURVET.2 (Noah Webster)
1. In the manege, a particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at one, equally advanced, and as his fore legs are falling, he raises his hind legs, so that all his lets are raised at once.
2137 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CUT.44 (Noah Webster)
8. To interfere as a horse, when the shoe of one foot beats off the skin of the pastern joint of another.
2138 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CUT.59 (Noah Webster)
5. To interfere, as a horse.
2139 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DAPPLE.1 (Noah Webster)
DAPPLE, a. Marked with spots; spotted; variegated with spots of different colors or shades of color, as a dapple-bay or dapple-gray; applied to a horse or other beast. It may sometimes express streaked, but this is not its true signification.
2140 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DEFRAUD.8 (Noah Webster)
A man of fortune who permits his son to consume the season of education in hunting, shooting, or in frequenting horse-races, assemblies, etc., defrauds the community of a benefactor, and bequeaths them a nuissance.