Search for: Horses
2201 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FETLOCK.1 (Noah Webster)
FETLOCK, n. [foot or feet and lock.] A tuft of hair growing behind the pastern joint of many horses. Horses of low size have scarce any such tuft.
2202 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FETTER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A chain for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or fixed, as a prisoner, or impeded in motion and hindered from leaping, as a horse whose fore and hind feet are confined by a chain.
2203 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FILLET.9 (Noah Webster)
7. In the manege, the loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
2204 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FILLY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A young horse. [Not used.]
2205 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FINNIKIN.1 (Noah Webster)
FINNIKIN, n. A sort of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse.
2206 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FIVES.2 (Noah Webster)
FIVES, VIVES, n. A disease of horses, resembling the strangles.
2207 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLAP.6 (Noah Webster)
3. The flaps, a disease in the lips of horses.
2208 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLAT.27 (Noah Webster)
7. A boat, broad and flat-bottomed. A flat-bottomed boat is constructed for conveying passengers or troops, horses, carriages and baggage.
2209 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLEET.5 (Noah Webster)
1. Swift of pace; moving or able to move with rapidity; nimble; light and quick in motion, or moving with lightness and celerity; as a fleet horse or dog.
2210 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLEETNESS.1 (Noah Webster)
FLEETNESS, n. Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as the fleetness of a horse or a deer.
2211 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLING.23 (Noah Webster)
1. To flounce; to wince; to fly into violent and irregular motions. The horse began to kick and fling.
2212 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLOUNCE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle as a horse in mire.
2213 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLOUNDER.3 (Noah Webster)
To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle as a horse in the mire; to roll, toss and tumble.
2214 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOAM.4 (Noah Webster)
1. To froth; to gather foam. The billows foam. A horse foams at the mouth when violently heated.
2215 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FODDER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Food or dry food for cattle, horses and sheep, as hay, straw and other kinds of vegetables. The word is never applied to pasture.
2216 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOOTROPE.1 (Noah Webster)
FOOTROPE, n. The lower boltrope, to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed. Also, a horse or rope to support men when reefing, etc.
2217 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOR.2 (Noah Webster)
… for horses, and for flocks, and for the cattle of the herds;” that is, according to the original, he gave them bread against horses like the Gr. Genesis 48:17 .
2218 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORAGE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Food of any kind for horses and cattle, as grass; pasture, hay, corn and oats.
2219 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORAGE.8 (Noah Webster)
1. To collect food for horses and cattle, by wandering about and feeding or stripping the country.
2220 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORAGE.11 (Noah Webster)
FORAGE, v.t. To strip of provisions for horses, etc.