horse-pistol

(hérs’pis’tol), n. A pistol of large board ship: also humorously employed in a lit caliber, formerly carried in holsters by draeral sense. [Slang.] goons and other horsemen. This old sea-dog organized a body of horse-marines to horse-play (hérs’pla), ». Coarse or rude play. patrol the shore. Adm. Porter, N. A. Rey., CXXVII. 225, Second Play. We have a play wherein we use a horse. horse-marshal} (hérs’mir’shal), ». A man- Sim. Fellows, you use no horse-play in Hed house. ager of horses; a groom, ’ Middle ton, Mayor of Queens borough, v. 1. horse-radish © The humour of the underplot constantly verges on horse- _ play, and is certainly neither delicate nor profound. —_ Nineteenth Century, XXIV, 541. By personal raids upon the gallery when not acting Mr. Phelps succeeded in stopping the horse-play and coarsene of audiences, Westminster Rev., CXXY. 581. horse-plum (hérs’plum), ». 1. A small red plum which is regarded as a variety of Prunus domestic a. Also called horse-jag, horsejug. (Eng.]—2. The wild plum, Prunus American a. The fruit, when fully ripe, is sweet’ and edible, and the tree is frequently cultivated either for its fruit or as a stock on which to graft the varieties of the domestic plum. [U.8.] horse-pond (hérs‘pond), ». A pond for watering horses.