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2421 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LOOSE.27 (Noah Webster)
With horse and chariots rank’d in loose array.
2422 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LOP.7 (Noah Webster)
4. To let fall; to flap; as, a horse lops his ears.
2423 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LUNET.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In the manege, a half horse-shoe, which wants the spunge, or that part of the branch which runs towards the quarters of the foot.
2424 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LUNET.4 (Noah Webster)
3. A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
2425 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MALANDERS.1 (Noah Webster)
MALANDERS, n. A dry scab on the pastern of a horse.
2426 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MALT-HORSE.1 (Noah Webster)
MALT-HORSE, n. A horse employed in grinding malt; hence, a dull fellow.
2427 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MANAGE.4 (Noah Webster)
2. To train or govern, as a horse.
2428 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MANAGE.19 (Noah Webster)
1. Government; control, as of a horse, or the exercise of riding him.
2429 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MANAGE.23 (Noah Webster)
[This word is nearly obsolete in all its applications, unless in reference to horses. We now use management.]
2430 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MANAGEABLE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Governable; tractable; that may be controlled; as a manageable horse.
2431 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MANE.1 (Noah Webster)
MANE, n. The hair growing on the upper side of the neck of a horse or other animal, usually hanging down on one side.
2432 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MANEGE.1 (Noah Webster)
MANEGE, n. A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses.
2433 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MANGER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A trough or box in which fodder is laid for cattle, or the place in which horses and cattle are fed.
2434 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MARE.1 (Noah Webster)
MARE, n. The female of the horse, or equine genus of quadrupeds.
2435 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MARK.17 (Noah Webster)
9. Any thing visible by which knowledge of something may be obtained; indication; as the marks of age in a horse. Civility is a mark of politeness or respect. Levity is a mark of weakness.
2436 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MARTINGAL.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A strap or thong fastened to the girth under a horse’s belly, and at the other end to the muss-roll, passing between the fore legs.
2437 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MASH.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A mixture for a horse.
2438 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MASTER.8 (Noah Webster)
It would be believed that he rather took the horse for his subject, than his master.
2439 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MASTER-SINEW.1 (Noah Webster)
MASTER-SINEW, n. A large sinew that surrounds the hough of a horse, and divides it from the bone by a hollow place, where the wind-galls are usually seated.
2440 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MATTER.26 (Noah Webster)
Waller, with Sir William Balfour, exceeded in horse, but were, upon the whole matter, equal in foot.