Word Meanings - HIPPOTOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Anatomy of the horse.
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- HORSE-LEECHERY
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. - HORSEMAN
A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1. - HORSEKNOP
Knapweed. - HORSERAKE
A rake drawn by a horse. - HORSEFLESH
1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on - HORSEPLAY
Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden. - HORSE-JOCKEY
1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses. - HORSEMINT
A coarse American plant of the Mint family . In England, the wild mint . - HORSEWORM
The larva of a botfly. - HORSESHOE
The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in - HORSEWOOD
A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms. - HORSEWHIP
A whip for horses. - HORSE-LITTER
A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton. - HORSEWEED
A composite plant , which is a common weed. - HORSE-DRENCH
1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred. - HORSESHOEING
The act or employment of shoeing horses. - HORSESHOER
One who shoes horses. - HORSEPOND
A pond for watering horses. - HORSEFLY
Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidæ, that stings horses, and sucks their blood. Note: Of these flies there are numerous species, both in Europe and America. They have a large proboscis with four sharp lancets for piercing the skin. Called - HORSE-RADISH
A plant of the genus Nasturtium , allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. Gray. Horse-radish tree. See Moringa. - REAR-HORSE
A mantis. - SAWHORSE
A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck. - SEA HORSE
1. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus. The walrus. Any fish of the genus Hippocampus. Note: In a passage - AHORSEBACK
On horseback. Two suspicious fellows ahorseback. Smollet. - STUD-HORSE
A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding. - BAWHORSE
See BATHORSE - HOBBY; HOBBYHORSE
cf. hober to stir, move; prob. of German or Scand. origin; cf. Dan. 1. A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag. Johnson. 2. A stick, often with the head or figure of a horse, on which - CLOTHESHORSE
A frame to hang clothes on.