Search for: Horses
2461 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NAVEL-GALL.1 (Noah Webster)
NAVEL-GALL, n. A bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle.
2462 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEAR.14 (Noah Webster)
8. Next to one; opposed to off; as the near horse or ox in a team.
2463 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEIGH.1 (Noah Webster)
NEIGH, v.i. [signifies to jar or quarrel; a sharp noise.] To utter the voice of a horse, expressive of want or desire; to whinny.
2464 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEIGH.2 (Noah Webster)
NEIGH, n. na. The voice of a horse; a whinnying.
2465 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEREID.1 (Noah Webster)
… sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish. They were the daughters of Nereus, and constantly attended Neptune …
2466 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NICK.12 (Noah Webster)
NICK, v.t. [G. knicken, to flaw.] To notch or make an incision in a horses tail, to make him carry it higher.
2467 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NIPPER.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four.
2468 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NITTER.1 (Noah Webster)
NITTER, n. [from nit.] The horse bee that deposits nits on horses.
2469 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NOTABLE.3 (Noah Webster)
They bore two or three charges from the horse with notable courage.
2470 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OAT.2 (Noah Webster)
… for horses and cattle.
2471 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBEQUITATE.1 (Noah Webster)
OBEQUITATE, v.i. [L. obequito; ob and equito, to ride; equus, a horse.] To ride about. [Not used.]
2472 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OFF.1 (Noah Webster)
OFF, a. auf. Most distant; as the off horse in a team.
2473 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OLD.2 (Noah Webster)
… or horse; an old tree. This adjective is placed after the noun that designates the time lived.
2474 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OSSELET.2 (Noah Webster)
A hard substance growing on the inside of a horse’s knee, among the small bones.
2475 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OSTRICH.2 (Noah Webster)
… fleetest horse.
2476 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OUTMARCH.2 (Noah Webster)
The horse outmarched the foot.
2477 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OVERREACH.4 (Noah Webster)
OVERREACH, v.i. Applied to horses, to strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the fore foot.
2478 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OVERRIDE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To ride too much; to ride beyond the strength of the horse.
2479 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PACE.6 (Noah Webster)
5. A mode of stepping among horses, in which the legs on the same side are lifted together. In a general sense, the word may be applied to any other mode of stepping.
2480 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PACE.13 (Noah Webster)
3. To move by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse.