Search for: Horses
2361 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOSTLER.1 (Noah Webster)
HOSTLER, n. hos’ler. The person who has the care of horses at an inn.
2362 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOSTRY.1 (Noah Webster)
HOSTRY, a. A stable for horses.
2363 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOUSING.5 (Noah Webster)
2. A piece of cloth fastened to the hinder part of a saddle, and covering the horse’s croup; called also boot-housing.
2364 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HUNTER.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A horse used in the chase.
2365 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HUNTING-HORSE.1 (Noah Webster)
HUNTING-HORSE, HUNTING-NAG, A horse used in hunting.
2366 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HURLBONE.1 (Noah Webster)
HURLBONE, n. In a horse, a bone near the middle of the buttock.
2367 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HURRY.2 (Noah Webster)
… the horses.
2368 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMAGINE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To form a notion or idea in the mind; to fancy. We can imagine the figure of a horse’s head united to a human body.
2369 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPOUND.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To put, shut or confine in a pound or close pen; as, to impound unruly or stray horses, cattle, etc.
2370 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPROVEMENT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Melioration; a making or growing better, or more valuable; as the improvement of barren or exhausted land; the improvement of the roads; the improvement of the breed of horses or cattle.
2371 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPROVER.1 (Noah Webster)
IMPROVER, n. One who improves; one who makes himself or any thing else better; as an improver of horses or cattle.
2372 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INFEST.1 (Noah Webster)
… infest horses and cattle. The sea is often infested with pirates. Small parties of the enemy infest the coast.
2373 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INNOXIOUS.4 (Noah Webster)
Innoxious flames are often seen on the hair of men’s heads, and on horses’ manes.
2374 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INSTEP.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The instep of a horse, is that part of the hind leg, which reaches form the ham to the paster-joint.
2375 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INTERFERE.4 (Noah Webster)
3. A horse is said to interfere, when one hoof or shoe strikes against the fetlock of the opposite leg, and breaks the skin or injures the flesh.
2376 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JACK.11 (Noah Webster)
10. A horse or wooden frame on which wood or timer is sawed.
2377 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JADE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A mean or poor horse; a tired horse; a worthless nag.
2378 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JADE.8 (Noah Webster)
JADE, v.t. To tire; to fatigue; to weary with hard service; as, to jade a horse.
2379 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JARDES.1 (Noah Webster)
JARDES, n. Callous tumors on the legs of a horse, below the bend of the ham on the outside.
2380 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. JAVELIN.1 (Noah Webster)
JAVELIN, n. A sort of spear about five feet and a half long, the shaft of which was of wood, but pointed with steel; used by horse or foot. Every Roman soldier carried seven javelins.