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2621 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLANDER.1 (Noah Webster)
SOLANDER, n. A disease in horses.
2622 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLE.7 (Noah Webster)
6. A sort of horn under a horse’s hoof.
2623 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLIDUNGULOUS.1 (Noah Webster)
SOLIDUNGULOUS, a. [L. solidus, solid, and ungula, hoof.] Having hoofs that are whole or not cloven. A horse is a solidungulous animal.
2624 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SORRANCE.1 (Noah Webster)
SORRANCE, n. In farriery, any disease or sore in horses.
2625 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SORREL.1 (Noah Webster)
SORREL, a. Of a reddish color; as a sorel horse.
2626 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SORT.2 (Noah Webster)
… of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems or writings. Sort is not a technical word, and therefore is used with less precision or more latitude than genus or species …
2627 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOUND.8 (Noah Webster)
7. Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; having all the organs complete and in perfect action; as a sound body; sound health; a sound constitution; a sound man; a sound horse.
2628 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPAN.4 (Noah Webster)
… of horses, consists of two of nearly the same color, and otherwise nearly alike, which are usually harness side by side. The word signifies properly the same …
2629 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPAN.9 (Noah Webster)
SPAN, v.i. To agree in color, or in color and size; as, the horses span well. [New England.]
2630 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPANCEL.1 (Noah Webster)
SPANCEL, v.t. To tie the legs of a horse or cow with a rope .
2631 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPAVIN.1 (Noah Webster)
SPAVIN, n. A tumor or excrescence that forms on the inside of a horse’s hough, not far from the elbow; at first like gristle, but afterwards hard and bony.
2632 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPEAR-FOOT.1 (Noah Webster)
SPEAR-FOOT, n. [spear and foot.] The far foot behind; used of a horse.
2633 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPEED.15 (Noah Webster)
… a horse runs or travels with speed; a fowl flies with speed. We speak of the speed of a fish in the water, but we do not speak of the speed of a river, or of wind, or of …
2634 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPEED.17 (Noah Webster)
3. Rapid pace; as a horse of speed. We say also, high speed, full speed.
2635 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPLAY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To dislocate or break a horses shoulder bone.
2636 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPLENT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A callous substance or insensible swelling on the shank-bone of a horse.
2637 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPRAWL.5 (Noah Webster)
3. To widen or open irregularly, as a body of horse.
2638 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPRING-HALT.1 (Noah Webster)
SPRING-HALT, n. [spring and halt.] A kind of lameness in which a horse twitches up his legs.
2639 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPUNGE.4 (Noah Webster)
3. In the manege, the extremity or point of a horse-shoe, answering to the heel.
2640 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPUR.2 (Noah Webster)
1. An instrument having a rowel or little wheel with sharp points, worn on horsemens heels, to prick the horses for hastening their pace.