horse-coursing 
E. Love. What yet-unheard-of course to live doth your 
imagination flatter you with? your ordinary means are 
devoured. 
Y. Love. Course ! why, horse-coursing, I think. 
Beau, and Fl., Scornful Lady, i. 1. 
horse-crab (hors'krab), n. Same as horseshoe- 
crab. 
horse-crevalle (hors'kre-val"e), . A carau- 
goid fish, Caranx hippos, the cavally: so called 
in South Carolina, in contradistinction to the 
pompano, there known as crevalle. 
horse-CUCUmber (h6rs'ku"kum-ber), n. A large 
green cucumber. Mortimer. 
horse-daisy (hors' da "zi), n. Same as oxeye 
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bot-fly, as the horse-bot, Gasterophilus eqiti. See 
cut under bot-fly. 
horsefly- weed (hors'fll-wed), . A leguminous 
plant, Jiaptisia tinctoria, the wild indigo or rat- 
tlebush. Also horseflea-weed. 
horsefoot (hors'fut), . [< ME. horsfot; < horse 1 
+ foot.] 1. A horse's foot. 
The Troiens for that tulke had tene at hor hert ; 
Kayron euyn to the kyng, caght hym belyue ; 
Harlet hym fro horsfet. had hym away. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5838. 
2. A plant, Tussilago Farfara : same as colts- 
foot. 3. The horseshoe-crab or king-crab, Li- 
nnilus polyphennis. 
horse-leech 
Horsehead (Selene vemtr). 
(From Report of U. S. Fish Commission. 1884.) 
SSSSfiOOSt o. * * :**..->-* -. - 
horse S -doctor S (h6rs'dok'tor),n. One who treats horsefoot-snipe (hors'fut-snip), n. Auameap- 
^ e di=of.horses; afaWier; a veterinary gU^j^SS^SfiS ^ve something to do with , ee a or ^. ^An- 
lantic coast of the United States, from their 
feeding on the spawn of the horsefoot. 
surgeon. [Colloq.] 
horse-drench (hdrs'drench), n. 1. A dose of 
physic for a horse. 
The most sovereign prescription of Galen is but empiri- 
cutick. and ... of no better repute than a horse-drench. 
Shak., Cor., ii. 1. 
2. A horn or other instrument by which medi- war-horse) bards or armor, 
cine is administered to a horse. horse-gear (hors'ger), n. 1. 
horse-elder (hors'el"der), . [An accom. form 
of horseheal, simulating elder 1 *.] Same as horse- 
heal. 
horse-emmet (hdra'cm^et), n. Same as horse- 
ant. 
other perversion appears in horse-elder.'] A 
coarse composite plant, Inula Belenium, the ele- 
campane. See cut under elecampane. 
f\. IVoOUtSl VI- UVM aca j tx f^iwu*. 
"Canst thou tell me," said Child Rowland to the hone- 
herd, "where the king of Elfland's castle is?" 
Child Rowland (Child's Ballads, I. 247). 
horse-furniture (hdrs'tfer'ni-tiir), . The trap- fcorse-herdt (hors'herd). x. [< ME. horsherde,< 
pings of a horse, including saddle, bridle, etc.; ^g horshyrde, a horse-keeper, a groom, < hors, 
the housings, caparison, and (if an armored horse, + hyrde, a keeper: see horse 1 and fcerd 2 .] 
A keeper of horses ; a groom. 
Same as horse- 
furniture, herd, 
The cruel curb-bit and heavy stock-saddle, with its high 
horn and cantle, prove that we have adopted Spanish- horse-hoe (h&rs'ho), n. See /ioe 1 . 
-T^XheCentury.XXX^^^^ 
horse-eye (h6rs'I), n. One of the small so- 2. Horse-power, as applied in moving machin- while ghoe j ngi O r for supporting sick or dis- 
called sea-beans, Mucuna ure>is, often found ery. [Eng.] abled horses. 
floating in the ocean or washed up on shore in horse-gentian (h&rs'jen'shian), n. See gentian. ^ge^f (h&rs'hof), n. Same as coltsfoot. 
tropical America, and used : " " 
eye bean, (a) Same as horse ~ 
other leguminous plant, Dolichos LaUab, a native of the h orse -ginseng (hors' Jin" seng), . Same as f orm ing an attachment i 
I*SLl /hA^fs^Vfl. Havir, Ion* coarse horse-gentian (which see, under gentian). vehicle ca n be drawn. . Car-Builder's Diet. 
An iron hook at- 
o a railroad-car, and 
for a rope by which the 
^ r c s e e - f ^ e y d(h6rs ' fst) ' a - Ha ^ alo ^ coar8e ESSSSS^iKSSSZ.. A 
hor|e'-fair (hors'far), n. A fair or market at large masculine woman, coarsely fat. [Prov. 
wViinh. p.hififlv horses are sold. -^Eg-J _ 
which chiefly horses are sold. 
horse-fettler (h&rs'fet"16r), m. In mining, a 
workman who provides for and attends to the 
horses kept underground. 
horse-finch (hors'fineh), n. The chaffinch. [Lo- 
cal, Eng.] 
horse-fish (h6rs'fish), n. 1. A fish of the f am- horse-gOgS (hors'gogz), n. A kind of wild plum 
ily Carangidai, Vomer setipinnis, having a much- a var j e ty o f Prunus domestica. 
In woman, angel sweetness let me see ; 
No galloping luirKe-godmotherx for me. 
Wolcot, Peter Pindar's Ode upon Ode (In Continuation). 
How do, my dear? Come to seethe old man, hay? 'Gad 
you've a pretty face, too. You ain't like that old horse- 
godmother, your mother. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxxix. 
horse-iron (hors'I'ern), n. Same as horsing- 
iron. 
horse-lag (h&rs'jag), n. Same as horse-plum, 1. 
horse-jockey (h6rs'jok"i), n. 1 . A professional 
rider of race-horses: more commonly in the 
shortened form jockey. 
My brother lives with hone-jockeys and trainers, and 
the wildest bloods of the town. 
Thackeray, Virginians, Ivi. 
2t. A dealer in horses, especially a tricky deal- 
a knavish horse trader. 
noonfish, dollar-fish, and Uunt-nosed ^sinner.- TaBSJBSKKrfSSS'SfiK takes care of horses. 
moons, -, - . jjo* n fonts, a natve o tropca an su- 
2. A carangoid fish, Selene vomer, closely re- tropical Africa and Asia, extensively cultivated 
sembling the foregoing, and known by the same 
names. See cut under horsehead. 3. The sau- 
ger, Stizostedion canadense. [Western U. S.] 
4. A sea-horse, as Hippocampus hudsonius. 
horseflea-weed (hors'fle-wed), n. Same as 
horsefly-weed. 
horse-flesh (h&rs'flesh), n. and a. I. n. 1. The 
flesh of a horse. Europeans have generally regarded 
horse-flesh as unfit for food ; but hippophagy or horse-eat- 
ing has always existed among some rude races, and has 
been advocated by many gastronomers in Europe. In Paris 
horse-flesh has long been surreptitiously dealt in as a 
cheap article of diet, and its sale, umier strict official super- T, nrafi >,ai r f hors'ha 
vision, was authorised in 1866. The necessary use of it norsenair ( 
there during the siege of 1870-1 brought it into more '= Ice'- MOfmhai 1 
general favor, which has been maintained. It is also eaten 
to some extent in other countries. 
India as a food-plant. 
And he called unto his horssekeeper, 
"Make ready you my steede." 
Childe Maurice (Child's Ballads, II. 316). 
(-guards (hors'gardz), n.pl. 1. A body of horse . knacker (h&rs'nak'er), n. One who buys 
S^WftulSffSfc^SSiSS dTsfase^ wom-out, or dea'd horses, for the 
to the departments under the commander-in- 
two horsemen standing sentry at the gates. 
3. [cap.'] The military authorities in charge 
of the war department of Great Britain, in dis- 
tinction from the civil chief, the Secretary for 
War. 
i, n. and a. 
(= Icel. 
commercial products to be procured from their 
carcasses. 
lorse-knavet (hors'nav), n. [< ME. hors-, 
horse-knave; < horse* + tware.] A horse-boy; 
a groom. 
And trusse here haltris forth with me, 
And am but as here hone-knave. 
Oowtr, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 112. (Ballivxll.) 
n. Same as horse- 
ME. h orsh er , , A , , , 
I. n. The horse-knob (hors 'nob), 
ing, riding, or racing. [Colloq. or 
He is a cogger of dice, a chanter of horse-flesh. 
Thackeray, Legend of the Rhine. 
3. A species of Bahama mahogany: probably 
so named from its color. 
n. a. Of the color of horse-flesh ; of a pecu- 
liar reddish-bronze color. --Horse-flesh mahog T 
any. Same as 
boruite : so call 1 
on the fresh fracture. 
Near the surface, especially on the Bruce location, a 
good deal of purple or horse-flesh ore was found. 
Ure, Diet., IV. 283. 
horse-flower (h6rs'flou"er), n. [Cf. equiv. Flem. 
peerd-bloeme, horse-flower.] A species of cow- 
wheat, Melamjtyrum sylvaticum. 
horse-fly (hors'fli), .. [< ME. horsflege, etc.; < 
horse 1 + fly'*.'] 1. A hexacheetous dipterous 
insect, as Tabanus bovinus and other species of 
the family Tabanida, of which the females have 
a piercing proboscis, and are extremely annoy- 
ing to horses and cattle. Also called Irreese, 
breeze-fly, and gadfly. See cuts under breeze* 
and gadfly. 2. A pupiparous dipterous insect 
of the family Hippoboacidee ; a forest-fly or tick- 
fly. Also called horse-tick. 3. A dichsetous 
dipterous insect of the family (Estrida;; a true 
etc. 
This holi man seint Edmund werede stronge here [see 
Aoirl.n.] . . . 
Of hard harsher ymaked. St. Edm. Conf., 1. 168. 
II. a. Made of horsehair ; covered, filled, or 
stuffed with horsehair : as, horsehair covering; 
a horsehair mattress. 
n. Same 
bunting of Europe, Emberiza miliaria. See cut 
under bunting*. [Cornwall, Eng.] 
horse-latitudes (hors'lat'i-tudz), n.pl. Naut., 
horsehair-worm (h&rs'har-werm), TO. A hair- 
worm or gordius. See cut under Gordius. 
horsehead (hors'hed), n. 1. A fish of the ge- 
nus Selene or the genus Vomer ; a moonfish or 
dollar-fish, as Selene vomer or Vomer setipinnis. 
See cut in next column. 2. A fish of the fam- 
ily Hippocampida; a sea-horse. 3. A cast of 
the interior of the shell of a fossil species of 
Trigoniida. 4. The surf -scoter, a duck, (Ede- 
mia perspicillata, more fully called horsehead 
coot. [Maine, U. S.] 
horseheal, horseheel (h&re'hel), w. [< ME. 
horsehele, < AS. hors-helene, hors-elene, elecam- 
pane, < hors, a horse (appar. as a tr. of the L. 
name inula, taken as hinnula, a colt), + elene, 
< L. helenium, elecampane: see Helenium. In 
later use the second element was supposed to 
i-c K iuu ^ ,,^~*.j ... higher latitudes 
and the region of the trade-winds of the trop- 
ics, notorious for tedious calms. "They were so 
called from the circumstance that vessels formerly bound 
from New England to the West Indies, with a deck-load 
of horses, were often so delayed in this calm belt of Can- 
cer, that, for the want of water for their animals, they 
were compelled to throw a portion of them overboard. 
Maury, The Physical Geography of the Sea(8th ed.), p. 276. 
horse-laugh (h&rs'laf), . [< horse* + laugh: 
such a laugh as we may imagine a horse would 
utter if it were a laughing animal.] A loud, 
coarse, boisterous laugh. 
A horse-laugh, if you please, at honesty. 
Pope, Epil. to Satires, i. 38. 
On my conscience, I believe she could spread a horse- 
laugh through the pews of a tabernacle. 
Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, i. 
Thrusting half-a-crown into each of his pockets, and a 
hand and wrist after it, he burst into a hone-laugh. 
Dickens. 
horse-leech (h&rs'lech), . 1. A large leech, 
as Haimopsis sanguisorba or Aulastoma yulo. 
