Search for: Horses
2221 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORAGER.1 (Noah Webster)
FORAGER, n. One that goes in search of food for horses or cattle.
2222 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORAGING.1 (Noah Webster)
FORAGING, ppr. or a. Collecting provisions for horses and cattle, or wandering in search of food; ravaging; stripping. The general sent out a foraging party, with a guard.
2223 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Properly, advanced, or being in advance of something in motion or progression; as the fore end of a chain carried in measuring land; the fore oxen or horses in a team.
2224 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOREHAND.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The part of a horse which is before the rider.
2225 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOREHORSE.1 (Noah Webster)
FOREHORSE, n. The horse in a team which goes foremost.
2226 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FORWARD.5 (Noah Webster)
1. Near or at the forepart; in advance of something else; as the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet; the forward horse in a team.
2227 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOUNDER.10 (Noah Webster)
FOUNDER, v.t. To cause internal inflammation and great soreness in the feet of a horse, so as to disable or lame him.
2228 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOURFOOTED.1 (Noah Webster)
FOURFOOTED, a. Quadruped; having four feet; as the horse and the ox.
2229 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FRAME.14 (Noah Webster)
2. Any fabric or structure composed of parts united; as the frame of an ox or horse. So we say, the frame of the heavenly arch; the frame of the world.
2230 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FREE.23 (Noah Webster)
19. Ready; eager; not dull; acting without spurring or shipping; as a free horse.
2231 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FRET.13 (Noah Webster)
9. To wear away; to chafe; to gall. Let not a saddle or harness fret the skin of your horse.
2232 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FROSTNAIL.1 (Noah Webster)
FROSTNAIL, n. a nail driven into a horse-shoe, to prevent the horse from slipping on ice. In some of the United States, the ends of the shoe are pointed for this purpose, and these points are called calks.
2233 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FROTH.6 (Noah Webster)
FROTH, v.i. To foam; to throw up spume; to throw out foam or bubbles. Beer froths in fermentation. The sea froths when violently agitated. A horse froths at the mouth when heated.
2234 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FRUSH.2 (Noah Webster)
FRUSH, n. In farriery, a sort of tender horn that grows in the middle of the sole of a horse, at some distance from the toe, dividing into two branches, and running toward the heel in the form of a fork.
2235 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GAIN.21 (Noah Webster)
2. To advance nearer; to gain ground on; with on; as, a fleet horse gains on his competitor.
2236 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GAINAGE.1 (Noah Webster)
… ; the horses, oxen and furniture of the wain, or the instruments for carrying on tillage, which, when a villain was amerced, were left free, that cultivation might …
2237 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GALL.3 (Noah Webster)
1. To fret and wear away by friction; to excoriate; to hurt or break the skin by rubbing; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse, or a collar his breast.
2238 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GALLOP.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To move or run with leaps, as a horse to run or move with speed.
2239 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GALLOP.8 (Noah Webster)
… a horse, by springs, reaches or leaps. The animal lifts his fore feet nearly at the same time, and as these descend and are just ready to touch the ground, the hind …
2240 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GALLOPER.1 (Noah Webster)
GALLOPER, n. A horse that gallops; also, a man that gallops or makes haste.