Horse

h6rs, n. A hoofed quadruped used for draught givunn. esp. a fixed, ears; 2, forelock; 3, foreflank; 26, belly; 27, haunch; head 4,; eye; 5, eye-pits; 6, 28, thigh; 29, buttock; 30, nose; 7, nostril; 8, point of stifle; 31, leg; 32, tail; 33, of the nose; 9, lips; 10, nether jaw; hock; 34, cannon or shank to the 11, cheek; 12, poll; 13, mane; bone; 35, arms; 36, knees; 14, withers; 15, parotid or; hori- 37, pa age for the girths; glands; 16, throat; 17, neck; 38, elbow; 39, shank; 40, bulof a 18, jugular vein; 19, shoullet; 41, pasterns; 42, coro- — der; 20, chest; 21, ribs; 22, net; 43, foot; 44, hoof; 45, back; 23, loins; 24, hip; 25, fetlock.; end, eve, tSrm 5 In, Ice; 5dd, or the saddle; the male of the genus horse, disting. fr. the female; mounted soldiery, cavalry (used without pi. termination); a frame with legs used for supporting something. {Mining.) A ma of earthy matter inclosed between branches of a vein. (Naut.) A foot-rope from the middle of a yard to its extremity; a thick rope near the mast for hoisting a yard or extending a sail on it.— v. t. [horsed (hdrst), housing.] To provide with a horse or horses; to ride or sit on anything astride; to cover (a mare) — said of the male. —Horse'' man, n.; pi. -men. A rider on horseback. (Mil.) A mounted soldier. — Horse'manship, n. Act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege. — Horse's hoe, n. An iron shoe for horses, shaped like the letter u; anything so ehaped. — Horse'-bean, n. A kind of small bean usually given to horses. — car, n. A railroad car drawn by horses. — chest/nut, -ches'nut, n. A tree bearing snowy flowers and large nuts, — said to have been brought fr. Constantinople; the nut. [So called because the nut was formerly ground and given horses.] — latitudes, n. pi. A sailor's name for zones of calms and baffling winds, one in each hemisphere,—said to be very fatal to horses on shipboard. laugh, n. A loud, coarse, boisterous laugh.— -pow'er, n. The power which a horse is capable of exerting. (Mack.) A standard by which the capabilities of steam engines, etc., are measured, — estimated as 33,000 pounds raised 1 foot in a minute. machine operated by horses. — race, n. A race by horses. — radish, n. (Bot.) A cruciferous herb, allied to scurvy gra , having a root of a pungent taste, used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. — rake, n. A rake drawn by horse-power. 195