Search for: Horses
2441 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MELLIT.1 (Noah Webster)
MELLIT, n. In farriery, a dry scab on the heel of a horse’s fore foot, cured by a mixture of honey and vinegar.
2442 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MERCHANDISE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The objects of commerce; wares, goods, commodities, whatever is usually bought or sold in trade. But provisions daily sold in market, horses, cattle, and fuel are not usually included in the term, and real estate never.
2443 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. METAPHOR.1 (Noah Webster)
… a horse. Beauty awakens love or tender passions; opposition fires courage.
2444 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. METTLE.2 (Noah Webster)
The winged courser, like a generous horse,
2445 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. METTLESOME.1 (Noah Webster)
METTLESOME, a. Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; brisk; fiery; as a mettlesome horse.
2446 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MILLHORSE.1 (Noah Webster)
MILLHORSE, n. A horse that turns a mill.
2447 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MIRE.2 (Noah Webster)
MIRE, v.t. To plunge and fix in mire; to set or stall in mud. We say, a horse, an ox or a carriage is mired, when it has sunk deep into mud and its progress is stopped.
2448 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MISSING.2 (Noah Webster)
1. a. Lost; absent from the place where it was expected to be found; wanting. My horse is missing; my pen or my book is missing.
2449 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MONTOIR.1 (Noah Webster)
MONTOIR, n. In horsemanship, a stone used for aiding to mount a horse.
2450 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MORSE.1 (Noah Webster)
… sea-horse, or walrus, an animal of the genus Trichechus, which sometimes grows to the length of 18 feet. This animal has a round head, small mouth and eyes, thick …
2451 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MOUNT.20 (Noah Webster)
2. To place one’s self on horseback; as, to mount a horse.
2452 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MOUNT.21 (Noah Webster)
3. To furnish with horses; as, to mount a troop. The dragoons were well mounted.
2453 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MOUTHED.3 (Noah Webster)
… a horse, not obedient to the bit, difficult to be restrained or governed by the bridle.
2454 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MOVE.2 (Noah Webster)
… ; the horse moves a cart or carriage. Mere matter cannot move itself. Machines are moved by springs, weights, or force applied.
2455 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MULE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A quadruped of a mongrel breed, usually generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes between a horse and a she-ass. But the name is applied to any animal produced by a mixture of different species.
2456 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MULTIPLY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To increase in number; to make more by natural generation or production, or by addition; as, to multiply men, horses or other animals; to multiply evils.
2457 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MUSROLE.1 (Noah Webster)
MUSROLE, n. The nose band of a horse’s bridle.
2458 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NAG.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A small horse; a horse in general, or rather a sprightly horse.
2459 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NAME.2 (Noah Webster)
… , goat, horse, tree, animal, which are called common names, specific or generic.
2460 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NARROW.9 (Noah Webster)
2. In horsemanship, a horse is said to narrow, when he does not take ground enough, or bear out enough to the one hand or the other.