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7201 Etymology dictionary, p. Lipizzan.2
1911, from Lipizza, home of the former Austrian Imperial Stud; term used to designate horses originally bred there. The city is modern-day Lipica near Trieste in Slovenia ( Lipizza is the Italian form of the name). Related: Lipizzaner .
7202 Etymology dictionary, p. livery (n.).3
… for horses" (mid-15c.). The former led to the meaning "distinctive clothing given to servants" (early 14c.); the latter now is obsolete, unless livery stable (1705) survives …
7203 Etymology dictionary, p. livestock (n.).2
… ," especially horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals; implements of husbandry sometimes were known as dead stock. Livestock also was, in old slang, "fleas …
7204 Etymology dictionary, p. loco (adj.).2
… and horse diseases that make them stagger and act strangely. But the adjective seems to be the older word.
7205 Etymology dictionary, p. loco-weed (n.).2
plant of the U.S. West, noted for its effect on cattle and horses that ate it, 1877; see loco (adj.) "crazy" + weed (n.).
7206 Etymology dictionary, p. long (adj.).4
… from horses showing age by recession of gums (but not in this sense until 1870). Long knives, name Native Americans gave to white settlers (originally in Virginia …
7207 Etymology dictionary, p. looker (n.).2
… and horses). Looker-on "observer, spectator" is by 1590s; looker-in (1927) was an early word for "television viewer." In Middle English a lokere-oute was "one who divines …
7208 Etymology dictionary, p. loser (n.).2
… ; meaning "horse that loses a race" is from 1902; "convicted criminal" is from 1912; "hapless person, one who habitually fails to win" is by 1955 in U.S. student slang …
7209 Etymology dictionary, p. maiden (adj.).2
… . In horse-racing (1760) it denotes young horses that have never run before. Maiden name "family name of a woman before her marriage" is from 1680s.
7210 Etymology dictionary, p. manage (v.).2
… " (a horse), from the now-obsolete noun manage "the handling or training of a horse; horsemanship" (see manege, which is a modern revival of it), from Old French manège …
7211 Etymology dictionary, p. mane (n.).2
… the horse, lion, and some other animals, Old English manu "mane of a horse," from Proto-Germanic *mano (source also of Old Norse mön, Old Frisian mana, Middle Dutch …
7212 Etymology dictionary, p. man-eater (n.).2
… of horses that tend to bite (1840). By 1906 of women (the female equivalent of a womanizer ). Related: Man-eating .
7213 Etymology dictionary, p. manege (n.).2
… trained horse," from French manège, from Italian maneggio "the handling or training of a horse," from maneggiare "to control (a horse);" see manage (v.).
7214 Etymology dictionary, p. manger (n.).2
… which horses and cattle eat food other than hay" (which generally is placed in a rack above the manger), early 14c., maunger, from Old French mangeoire "crib, manger …
7215 Etymology dictionary, p. mania (n.).3
… ), hippomania (horses), etc.
7216 Etymology dictionary, p. man-of-war (n.).2
… race horse was Man o' War (1917-1947).
7217 Etymology dictionary, p. mare (n.1).2
… horse or any other equine animal," Old English meare, also mere (Mercian), myre (West Saxon), fem. of mearh "horse," from Proto-Germanic *marhijo- "female horse" (source …
7218 Etymology dictionary, p. marshal (n.).2
… officer, horse tender, groom" (Frankish Latin mariscaluis ) from Frankish *marhskalk or a similar Germanic word, literally "horse-servant" (compare Old High German …
7219 Etymology dictionary, p. marshal (n.).3
… *markhaz "horse" (see mare (n.1)) + *skalkaz "servant" (source of Old English scealc "servant, retainer, member of a crew," Dutch schalk "rogue, wag," Gothic skalks "servant"). It …
7220 Etymology dictionary, p. marshal (v.).2
mid-15c., marshalen, "to tend (horses)," also "to arrange, place in order;" "arrange (soldiers) for fighting," from marshal (n.). Figurative use is by 1690s. Related: Marshaled; marshaling .