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Word Meanings - WITHER-WRUNG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Injured or hurt in the withers, as a 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.
  • INJURE
    To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander,
  • 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.
  • INJURIOUS
    1. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. Milton. Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute from us, we were free. Shak. 2. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health,
  • WITHERS
    The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak. (more info) strain in drawing a load; fr. OE. wither resistance, AS. withre, fr.
  • 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.
  • INJURIOUSNESS
    The quality of being injurious or hurtful; harmfulness; injury.
  • HORSESHOEING
    The act or employment of shoeing horses.
  • 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

 

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