horse-rough

(hérs’ruf), x. A calk or ice-creep- er which may be fitted to the shoe of a horse to give him a foothold on frozen ground. horse-run (hérs’run), 2. contrivance for drawing up loaded wheelbarrows, by the help of a horse, from the bottoms of excavations for ca- Horse-rough. nals, docks, ete. horse-runningt, x. A horse-race. Davies. The Forest of Galtres,. very notorious in these daies by reason of a solemne horse-running, wherein the horse that outrunneth the rest hath for his prise a little golden bell. Holland, tr. of Camden, p. 723. horse-sense (hérs’sens’), ». A crude, instinetive kind of common sense, independent of instruction or experience; a coarse, robust, and conspicuous form of shrewdne often found in ignorant and rude persons; plain, practical good sense. He was a plain man; his sympathies were with the people; he had what is roughly known as horse-sense, and he was homely. C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 133. Happily, the latent horse-sense of the. American people may be relied on, in the end, to abate the nuisance, New Eng. Jour. of Education, XTX. 877. horseshoe (hérs’shé), ». [