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2761 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WALK.30 (Noah Webster)
2. To cause to walk or step slowly; to lead, drive or ride with a slow pace. He found the road so bad he was obliged to walk his horse. The coachman walked his horses from Woodbridge to Princeton.
2762 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WALK.43 (Noah Webster)
9. The slowest pace of a horse, ox or other quadruped.
2763 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WALL-EYE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In horses, an eye in which the iris is of a very light gray color.
2764 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WALRUS.1 (Noah Webster)
WALRUS, n. [G., a whale, a horse.] The morse or sea horse, an animal of the northern seas, of the genus Trichechus.
2765 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WARBLES.1 (Noah Webster)
… of horses, occasioned by the heat of the saddle in traveling, or by the uneasiness of its situation; also, small tumors produced by the larvas of the gad fly, in …
2766 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WARRANTER.3 (Noah Webster)
2. One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; as the warranter of a horse.
2767 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WART.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A hard excrescence on the skin of animals, which is covered with the production of the cuticle. In horses, warts are spungy excrescences on the hinder pasterns, which suppurate.
2768 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WASHY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Weak; not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as a washy horse. [New England.]
2769 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WATER.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To supply with water for drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
2770 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WATERING-TROUGH.1 (Noah Webster)
WATERING-TROUGH, n. A trough in which cattle and horses drink.
2771 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WEARY.2 (Noah Webster)
… tired horse. It is followed by of, before the cause of fatigue; as, to be weary of marching; to be weary of reaping; to be weary of study.]
2772 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHAME.1 (Noah Webster)
WHAME, n. A species of fly, tabanus, the burrel fly, that annoys horses.
2773 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHINNY.1 (Noah Webster)
WHINNY, v.i. [L.; from the root of whine.] To utter the sound of a horse; to neigh.
2774 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHIP.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To strike with a lash or sweeping cord; as, to whip a horse.
2775 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHIP.17 (Noah Webster)
1. An instrument for driving horses or other teams, or for correction, consisting of a lash tied to a handle or rod.
2776 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHITE-CLOVER.1 (Noah Webster)
WHITE-CLOVER, n. A small species of perennial clover, bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for cattle and horses, as well as for the honey bee.
2777 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHITE-FACE.1 (Noah Webster)
WHITE-FACE, WHITE-BLAZE, n. A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose.
2778 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHITE-FOOT.1 (Noah Webster)
WHITE-FOOT, n. A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
2779 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WHITE-HORSE-FISH.1 (Noah Webster)
WHITE-HORSE-FISH, n. In ichthyology, the Raia aspera nostras of Willoughby, and the Raia fullonica of Linne. It has a rough spiny back, and on the tail are three rows of strong spines. It grows to the size of the skate.
2780 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. WILLFUL.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Stubborn; refractory; as a willful horse.