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2181 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ESCAPADE.1 (Noah Webster)
ESCAPADE, n. The fling of a horse. In Spanish, flight, escape.
2182 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ESTRAPADE.1 (Noah Webster)
ESTRAPADE, n. The defense of a horse that will not obey, and which, to get rid of his rider, rises before and yerks furiously with his hind legs.
2183 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ESTRAY.2 (Noah Webster)
ESTRAY, n. A tame beast, as a horse, ox or sheep, which is found wandering or without an owner; a beast supposed to have strayed from the power or inclosure of its owner. It is usually written stray.
2184 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXCELLENT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Being of great value or use, applied to things; remarkable for good properties; as excellent timber; an excellent farm; an excellent horse; excellent fruit.
2185 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXCHANGE.2 (Noah Webster)
… exchange horses; to exchange oxen for corn.
2186 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXCHANGE.7 (Noah Webster)
It has with before the person receiving the thing given, and for before the equivalent. Will you exchange horses with me? Will you exchange your horse for mine?
2187 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXCHANGE.9 (Noah Webster)
Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses. Genesis 47:17 .
2188 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FALCADE.2 (Noah Webster)
A horse is said to make a falcade, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, as in very quick curvets; that is a falcade is a bending very low.
2189 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FALL.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To drop from a higher place; to descend by the power of gravity alone. Rain falls from the clouds; a man falls from his horse; ripe fruits fall from trees; an ox falls into a pit.
2190 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FALL.118 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of dropping or descending from a higher to a lower place by gravity; descent; as a fall from a horse or from the yard of a ship.
2191 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FAR.9 (Noah Webster)
4. More or most distant of the two; as the far side of a horse. But the drivers of teams in New England generally use off; as the off side, or off horse or ox.
2192 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FARCIN.1 (Noah Webster)
FARCIN, FARCY, n. A disease of horses, sometimes of oxen, of the nature of a scabies or mange.
2193 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FARRIER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A shoer of horses; a smith who shoes horses.
2194 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FARRIER.3 (Noah Webster)
2. One who professes to cure the diseases of horses.
2195 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FARRIERY.1 (Noah Webster)
FARRIERY, n. The art of preventing, curing or mitigating the diseases of horses.
2196 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FASCINATION.2 (Noah Webster)
The Turks hang old rags on their fairest horses, to secure them against fascination.
2197 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FAST.14 (Noah Webster)
Swift; moving rapidly; quick in motion; as a fast horse.
2198 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FEATHER.6 (Noah Webster)
4. On a horse, a sort of natural frizzling of the hair, which, in some places, rises above the lying hair, and there makes a figure resembling the tip of an ear of wheat.
2199 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FEED.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To give food to; as, to feed an infant; to feed horses and oxen.
2200 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FERRY.2 (Noah Webster)
To carry or transport over a river, strait or other water, in a boat. We ferry men, horses, carriages, over rivers, for a moderate fee or price called fare or ferriage.