Search for: Horses
2241 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GALLOWAY.1 (Noah Webster)
GALLOWAY, n. A horse or species of horses of a small size, bred in Galloway in Scotland.
2242 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GAMBREL.1 (Noah Webster)
GAMBREL, n. The hind leg of a horse. Hence, in America, a crooked stick used by butchers. A hipped roof is called a gambrel-roof.
2243 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GARRAN.1 (Noah Webster)
GARRAN, GARRON, n. A small horse; a highland horse; a hack; a jade; a galloway. [Not used in America.]
2244 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GEAR.4 (Noah Webster)
2. More generally, the harness or furniture of beasts; whatever is used in equipping horses or cattle for draught; tackle.
2245 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GELDING.2 (Noah Webster)
GELDING, n. A castrated animal, but chiefly a horse.
2246 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GENET.1 (Noah Webster)
GENET, n. A small-sized, well-proportioned Spanish horse.
2247 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GENTLE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Tame; peaceable; not wild, turbulent or refractory; as a gentle horse or beast.
2248 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GIG.5 (Noah Webster)
2. A light carriage with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a chair or chaise.
2249 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GIRT.4 (Noah Webster)
GIRT, GIRTH, n. The band or strap by which a saddle or any burden on a horse’s back is made fast, by passing under his belly.
2250 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GIVE.64 (Noah Webster)
1. To fail; to yield or force; to break or fall. The ice gave way and the horses were drowned. The scaffolding gave way. The wheels or axletree gave way.
2251 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GLANDERS.1 (Noah Webster)
GLANDERS, n. [from gland.] In farriery, the running of corrupt slimy matter from the nose of a horse.
2252 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GNU.1 (Noah Webster)
GNU, n. A species of Antelope, in Southern Africa, whose form partakes of that of the horse, the ox, and the deer.
2253 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GO.2 (Noah Webster)
… ; a horse goes lame; a fowl or a ball goes with velocity through the air.
2254 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GOER.4 (Noah Webster)
3. A term applied to a horse; as a good goer; a safe goer. [Unusual in the U. States.]
2255 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GOGGLES.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Blinds for horses that are apt to take fright.
2256 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GOODS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Personal or movable estate; as horses, cattle, utensils, etc.
2257 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GOURDINESS.1 (Noah Webster)
GOURDINESS, n. A swelling on a horse’s leg after a journey.
2258 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GRAIN.12 (Noah Webster)
The tooth of a sea-horse, contains a curdled grain.
2259 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GRAMINIVOROUS.2 (Noah Webster)
Feeding or subsisting on grass. The ox and all the bovine genus of quadrupeds are graminivorous animals; so also the horse or equine genus.
2260 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GRAPE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In the manege, grapes signifies mangy tumors on the legs of a horse.