Search for: Horses
2741 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNHORSING.1 (Noah Webster)
UNHORSING, ppr. Throwing from a horse; dismounting.
2742 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNMOUNTED.1 (Noah Webster)
UNMOUNTED, a. Not mounted. Unmounted dragoons are such as have not horses.
2743 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNSADDLE.1 (Noah Webster)
UNSADDLE, v.t. To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from; as, to unsaddle a horse.
2744 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNWARRANTED.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Not covenanted to be good, sound, or of a certain quality; as an unwarranted horse.
2745 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UPON.19 (Noah Webster)
17. Having a particular manner. The horse is now upon a hard trot.
2746 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VALUABLE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Having value or worth; having some good qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; as a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable house.
2747 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VAULT.8 (Noah Webster)
5. In the manege, the leap or a horse.
2748 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VELOCITY.2 (Noah Webster)
… , a horse or an ostrich runs with celerity, and a stream runs with rapidity or velocity; but bodies moving in the air or in etherial space, move with greater or …
2749 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VEND.2 (Noah Webster)
… a horse.
2750 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VENTURE.19 (Noah Webster)
2. To put or send on a venture or chance; as, to venture a horse to the West Indies.
2751 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VESSICON.1 (Noah Webster)
VESSICON, VESSIGON, n. [L. vesica.] A soft swelling on a horse’s leg, called a windgall.
2752 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VETERINARY.1 (Noah Webster)
… oxen, horses, sheep, etc. A veterinary college was established in England in 1792, at St. Pancras, in the vicinity of London. The improvement of the vetrinary art …
2753 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VICE.7 (Noah Webster)
4. A fault or bad trick in a horse.
2754 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VICIOUS.7 (Noah Webster)
6. Unruly; refractory; not well tamed or broken; as a vicious horse.
2755 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VIVES.1 (Noah Webster)
VIVES, n. A disease of animals, particularly of horses, seated in the glads under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
2756 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VOLT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. a round or circular tread; a gait of two treads, made by a horse going sideways round a center.
2757 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VOMIT.2 (Noah Webster)
To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth. Some persons vomit with ease, as do cats and dogs. But horses do not vomit.
2758 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WAGE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To lay; to bet; to throw down as a pledge; to stake; to put at hazard on the event of a contest. This is the common popular sense of the word in New England; as, to wage a dollar; to wage a horse.
2759 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WAGON.2 (Noah Webster)
… by horses; used for the transportation of heavy commodities. In America, light wagons are used for the conveyance of families, and for carrying light commodities …
2760 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WAIT.27 (Noah Webster)
He chose a thousand horse, the flowr of all his warlike troops, to wait the funeral. [This use is not justifiable, but by poetical license.]