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2281 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HAW.4 (Noah Webster)
3. In farriery, an excrescence resembling a gristle, growing under the nether eyelid and eye of a horse.
2282 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HEAD.30 (Noah Webster)
25. Liberty; freedom from restrain; as, to give a horse the head. Hence,
2283 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HEAVE.26 (Noah Webster)
HEAVE, v.i. heev. To swell, distend or dilate; as, a horse heaves in panting. Hence,
2284 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HEAVES.1 (Noah Webster)
HEAVES, n. heevz. A disease of horses, characterized by difficult and laborious respiration.
2285 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HEEL.12 (Noah Webster)
This horse understands the heel well.
2286 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HERBIVOROUS.1 (Noah Webster)
HERBIVOROUS, a. [L. herba and voro, to eat.] Eating herbs; subsisting on herbaceous plants; feeding on vegetables. The ox and the horse are herbivorous animals.
2287 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HERD.2 (Noah Webster)
… of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, bucks, harts, and in Scripture, a herd of swine. But we say, a flock of sheep, goats, or birds. A number of cattle going to market …
2288 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HERIOT.1 (Noah Webster)
… of horses and arms, as appears by the laws of Canute, C. 69. But as defined by modern writers, a heriot is a customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to the …
2289 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIDE.21 (Noah Webster)
1. The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; more generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.
2290 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIDEBOUND.1 (Noah Webster)
HIDEBOUND, a. A horse is hidebound, when his skin sticks so closely to his ribs and back, as not to be easily loosened or raised.
2291 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIND.4 (Noah Webster)
HIND, a. Backward; pertaining to the part which follows; in opposition to the fore part; as the hind legs of a quadruped; the hind toes; the hind shoes of a horse; the hind part of an animal.
2292 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIPPELAPH.1 (Noah Webster)
HIPPELAPH, n. An animal of the deer kind, in Norway, about the size of the elk, and partaking of the nature of the horse and the stag.
2293 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIPPOCAMP.1 (Noah Webster)
HIPPOCAMP, n. [Gr. a horse, and to bend.] A name given to the sea-horse.
2294 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIPPOCENTAUR.1 (Noah Webster)
HIPPOCENTAUR, n. [Gr. a horse, to spur, and a bull.]
2295 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIPPOCENTAUR.2 (Noah Webster)
In ancient fable, a supposed monster, half man and half horse. The hippocentaur differed from the centaur in this, that the latter rode on an ox, and the former on a horse, as the name imports.
2296 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIPPODAME.1 (Noah Webster)
HIPPODAME, n. A sea-horse.
2297 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIPPODROME.1 (Noah Webster)
HIPPODROME, n. [Gr. a horse, and a course, to run.] Anciently, a circus, or place in which horse races and chariot races were performed, and horses exercised.
2298 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIPPOGRIFF.1 (Noah Webster)
HIPPOGRIFF, n. [Gr. a horse, and a griffon.] A fabulous animal or monster, half horse and half griffon; a winged horse, imagined by Ariosto.
2299 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIPPOLITH.1 (Noah Webster)
HIPPOLITH, n. [Gr. a horse, and a stone.] A stone found in the stomach or intestines of a horse.
2300 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HIPPOMANE.1 (Noah Webster)
HIPPOMANE, n. [Gr. a horse, and madness.]