Search for: Horses
2601 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHED.9 (Noah Webster)
1. A slight building; a covering of timber and boards, etc. for shelter against and the inclemencies of weather; a poop house or hovel; as a horse-shed.
2602 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHELTIE.1 (Noah Webster)
SHELTIE, n. A small but strong horse in Scotland; so called from Shetland, where it is produced.
2603 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHOE.3 (Noah Webster)
… a horse to defend it from injury; also, a plate of iron for for an ox’s hoof, one for each division of the hoof. Oxen are shod in New England, sometimes to defend the …
2604 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHOE.10 (Noah Webster)
1. To furnish with shoes; ot put shoes on; as, to shoe a horse or an ox; to shoe a sled or sleigh.
2605 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHORT-JOINTED.1 (Noah Webster)
SHORT-JOINTED, a. [short and joint.] A horse is said to be short-jointed when the pastern is to short.
2606 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SHOULDER-SHOTTEN.1 (Noah Webster)
SHOULDER-SHOTTEN, a. [shoulder and shot.] Strained in the shoulder, as a horse.
2607 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SIGHTLY.3 (Noah Webster)
Many brave sightly horses. We have thirty members, the most sightly of all her majesty’s subjects.
2608 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SINEW-SHRUNK.1 (Noah Webster)
SINEW-SHRUNK, a. Gaunt-bellied; having the sinews under belly shrunk by excess of fatigue, as a horse.
2609 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SIRE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The male parent of a beast; particularly used of horses; as, the horse had a good sire, but a bad dam.
2610 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SIT.27 (Noah Webster)
1. To keep the seat upon. He sits a horse well. [This phrase is elliptical.]
2611 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SITFAST.1 (Noah Webster)
SITFAST, n. A hard knob growing on a horse’s back under the saddle.
2612 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SLAVE.2 (Noah Webster)
… , like horses and oxen.
2613 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SLIP.16 (Noah Webster)
6. To throw off; to disengage one’s self from; as, a horse slip his bridle.
2614 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SLOW.10 (Noah Webster)
SLOW, is used in composition to modify other words; as a slow-paced horse.
2615 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SMALL.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Slender; thin; fine; of little diameter; hence in general, little in size or quantity; not great; as a small house; a small horse; a small farm; a small body; small particles.
2616 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SMALLNESS.1 (Noah Webster)
SMALLNESS, n. Littleness of size or extent; littleness of quantity; as the smallness of a fly or of a horse; the smallness of a hill.
2617 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SNORT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as high spirited horses in prancing and play.
2618 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SNUFF.11 (Noah Webster)
1. To snort; to inhale air with violence or with noise; as dogs and horses.
2619 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOIL.5 (Noah Webster)
To soil a horse, is to purge him by giving him fresh grass.
2620 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOILING.2 (Noah Webster)
SOILING, n. The act of practice of feeding cattle or horses with fresh grass, instead of pasturing them.