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2521 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREPARE.5 (Noah Webster)
Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him. 2 Samuel 15:1 .
2522 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRESS.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To drive with violence; to hurry; as, to press a horse in motion, or in a race.
2523 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRICK.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To erect a pointed thing, or with an acuminated point; applied chiefly to the ears, and primarily to the pointed ears of an animal. The horse pricks his ears, or pricks up his ears.
2524 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROPAGATE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To continue or multiply the kind by generation or successive production; applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate any species of fruit tree.
2525 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROPAGATE.11 (Noah Webster)
PROPAGATE, v.i. To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants. Wild horses propagate in the forests of S. America.
2526 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROPORTIONABLE.1 (Noah Webster)
… of horse.
2527 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PROVOST.6 (Noah Webster)
Provost of the king’s stables, is an officer who attends at court and holds the king’s stirrup when he mounts his horse.
2528 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PUNCH.4 (Noah Webster)
PUNCH, n. A well set horse with a short back, thin shoulders, broad neck, and well covered with flesh.
2529 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PURSE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A sum of money offered as the prize of winning in a horse race.
2530 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PURVEYANCE.3 (Noah Webster)
… impressing horses and carriages, etc.; a right abolished by Stat. 12. Charles II. 24.
2531 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PUT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To set, lay or place; in a general sense. Thus we say, to put the hand to the face; to put a book on the shelf; to put a horse in the stable; to put fire to the fuel; to put clothes on the body. God planted a garden and there he put Adam.
2532 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUADRUPED.2 (Noah Webster)
QUADRUPED, n. An animal having four legs and feet, as a horse, an ox, a lion, etc.
2533 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUAIL-PIPE.1 (Noah Webster)
QUAIL-PIPE, n. A pipe or call for alluring quails into a net; a kind of leathern purse in the shape of a pear, partly filled with horse hair, with a whistle at the end.
2534 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUANTITY.3 (Noah Webster)
… of horses, or of houses; for as these are considered as separate individuals or beings, we call an assemblage of them, a number of multitude.
2535 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUARTER.20 (Noah Webster)
… a horse’s foot are the sides of the coffin, between the toe and the heel. False quarters are a cleft in the horn of the hoof, extending from the coronet to the shoe …
2536 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. QUOIT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A kind of horse shoe to be pitched or thrown at a fixed object in play. In common practice, a plain flat stone is used for this purpose.
2537 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RACE.5 (Noah Webster)
3. A particular breed; as a race of mules; a race of horses; a race of sheep.
2538 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RACE.20 (Noah Webster)
6. By way of distinction, a contest in the running of horses; generally in the plural. The races commence in October.
2539 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RACE-HORSE.1 (Noah Webster)
RACE-HORSE, n. A horse bred or kept for running in contest; a horse that runs in competition.
2540 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RACK.7 (Noah Webster)
5. A wooden frame of open work in which hay is laid for horses and cattle for feeding.