Search for: Horses
2681 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUD-HORSE.1 (Noah Webster)
STUD-HORSE, n. [L.] A breeding horse; a horse kept for propagating his kind.
2682 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STUMBLE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To trip in walking or moving in any way upon the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; applied to any animal. A man may stumble, as well as a horse.
2683 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUB-BRIGADIER.1 (Noah Webster)
SUB-BRIGADIER, n. An officer in the horse guards, who ranks as cornet.
2684 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBSTANTIVE.3 (Noah Webster)
… man, horse, city, goodness, excellence, are substantives. [Better called name, L. nomen, or even noun, a corruption of nomen.]
2685 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUMPTER.1 (Noah Webster)
SUMPTER, n. A horse that carries clothes or furniture; a baggage-horse; usually called a pack-horse.
2686 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SURCINGLE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A belt, band or girth which passes over a saddle, or over any thing laid on a horse’s back, to bind it fast.
2687 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUREFOOTED.1 (Noah Webster)
SUREFOOTED, a. [sure and foot.] Not liable to stumble or fall; as a surefooted horse.
2688 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SWEAT.7 (Noah Webster)
1. To emit sensible moisture through the pores of the skin; to perspire. Horses sweat; oxen sweat little or not at all.
2689 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SWEATING-IRON.1 (Noah Webster)
SWEATING-IRON, n. A kind of knife or a piece of a sythe, used to scrape off sweat from horses.
2690 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SWIMMER.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A protuberance on the leg of a horse.
2691 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SWITCH.2 (Noah Webster)
On the medal, Mauritania leads a horse by a thread with one hand, and in the other holds a switch.
2692 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TACKLE.11 (Noah Webster)
TACKLE, v.t. To harness; as, to tackle a horse into a gig, sleigh, coach or wagon. [A legitimate and common use of the word in America.]
2693 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TAIL.9 (Noah Webster)
7. Horse’s tail, among the Tartars and Chinese, is an ensign or flag; among the Turks, a standard borne before the grand visier, bashaws and the sangiacs. For this …
2694 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TAVERNER.1 (Noah Webster)
… the horses or oxen composing their teams. Taverners are by law to be provided with suitable beds for their guests, and with fodder for horses and cattle.
2695 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TAX.2 (Noah Webster)
… , houses, horses, cattle, professions and occupations. So we speak of a land tax, a window tax, a tax on carriages, etc. Taxes are annual or perpetual.
2696 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TEAM.2 (Noah Webster)
… more horses, oxen or other beasts harnessed together to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, chariot, wagon, cart, sled, sleigh and the like. It has been a …
2697 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THEM.1 (Noah Webster)
… them horses, or them horses are to be led to water.]
2698 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THILL.1 (Noah Webster)
THILL, n. The shaft of a cart, gig or other carriage. The thills are the two pieces of timber extending from the body of the carriage on each side of the last horse, by which the carriage is supported in a horizontal position.
2699 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THILLER.1 (Noah Webster)
THILLER, THILL-HORSE, n. The horse which goes between the thills or shafts, and supports them. In a team, the last horse.
2700 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THROPPLE.1 (Noah Webster)
THROPPLE, n. The windpipe of a horse. [Local.]