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inadvertently commit an error either in word or action; 
thus putting a check upon intemperate blame, or uncha¬ 
ritable cenfure. 
HORSE (The), a fmall ifland or rock in the -North 
Sea: two mites and a half eaft from the ifland of Pomona. 
HORSE-B AL'LET, / A horfe-dance. 
HOR'SE-BEAN,/ A fmall kind of bean ufually given 
to horfes. 
HOR'SE-BEECH,/ in botany. See Carpinus. 
HOR'SE-BLOCK, / A block from which to mount a 
horfe. 
HOR'SE-BOAT,/ A boat ufed for conveying or fer¬ 
rying horfes. _ . 
HOR'SE-BOY, f A boy employed in drefling horfes; 
a ftable-boy. 
HOR'SE-BREAKER,/ One whofe employment is to 
tame horfes, and to the Caddie.—Under Sagittarius are 
born chariot-racers, horfe-breakers, and tamers of wild 
beafts. Creech. 
HORSE-CHES'NUT. See ^Esculus. 
HOR'SE-CLOTH, f. A cloth to throw over a horfe. 
HOR'SE-COURSF.R, f One that runs horfes, or keeps 
them for the race. A dealer in horfes. 
HOR'SE-CR AB, f. A large kind of fhell-fifh. Ainfwortk. 
HORSE-CU'CUMBER, / The large green cucumber. 
HOR'SE-DANCE, f. A dance awkwardly performed. 
HOR'SE-DUNG, f. The excrement of horfes., 
HOR'SE-EYE-BEAN. See Dolichos. 
HOR'SE-FACE, / A face with large features. Johnfan. 
HQR'SE-FEEDER, / One who feeds horfes, and trains 
them for the road or race. 
HOR'SE-FLESH,/ The flefh of horfes.—The Cliinefe 
eat horfe-Jlefk at this day, and feme gluttons-eat colt’s-flefh 
baked. Bacon. 
HOR'SE-FLY, / A fly that flings horfes, and fucks 
their blood, commonly called the forejl-fly. See Hippo- 
eosca, p. 188 of this volume, with the correfpondent 
engraving. 
HOR'SE-HAIR,/ The hair of horfes: 
His glitt’ring helm, which terribly was grac’d 
With waving hofe-hair. Dry den. 
HOR'SE-ISLAND, a fmall ifland near the fouth-wefl 
coaft of Ireland, and county of Kerry: three miles north 
from Hog’s Head. 
HOR'SE-ISLAND, a fmall ifland of Scotland, in the 
Frith of Clyde, near the coaft of the county of Ayr. Lat. 
55. 41. N. Ion. 1. 39. W. Edinburgh. 
HOR'SE-ISLANDS, a clufter of fmall iflands near the 
eaft coaft of Newfoundland. Lat. 50. 25. N. Ion. 55. 30. W. 
Greenwich. 
HOR'SE-LAUGH,/ A loud violent rude laugh : 
A horfe-laugk , if you pleafe, at honefty. 
A joke on Jekyl. Pope. 
HQR'SE-LEECH,/ A horfe-do£lor. The leech that 
bites horfes, and fucks their blood. See the article Hirudo, 
in this volume, and the correfpondent engraving. 
HOR'SE-LITTER,/ A carriage hung upon poles be¬ 
tween two horfes, in which the perfon carried lies along. 
■—He that before thought he might command the waves 
of the fea, was now eaft on the ground, and carried in a 
horfe-titter. 2 Mac. ix. 8. 
HOR'SE-MEASURE,/ A rod divided into hands and 
inches, in order to meafure horfes. 
HOR'SE-ME AT, f. Provender.—Though green peafe 
and beans be eaten fooner, yet the dry ones that are ufed 
for horfe-meat are ripe laft. Bacon. 
HOR'SE-MINT. See Mentha. 
HOR'SE-MUSSEL, f. A large muflel. See the article 
Mytilus. —The great korfe-misjfel , with the fine fhell, that 
breedeth in ponds, do not only gape and fhut as the 
oyflers do, but remove from one place to another. Bacon. 
HOR'SE-PIPE, f. in botany. See Equisetum. 
HOR'SE-PLAY, f. Coarfe, rough, rugged, play.—He 
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is too much given to hcfe-play in his raillery, and comes 
to battle like a dictator from the plough. Dryden. 
HOR'SE-FOND, f. A pond for horfes. 
HOR'SE-RACE, /. A match of horfes in running.— 
Trajan, in the fifth year of his tribunefhip, entertained 
the people with a horfe-race. Addifon. 
HORSE-RAD'ISH. See Cochlearia. 
HOR'SE-SHOE, [ A plate of iron nailed to the feet of 
horfes. See the article Farriery, vol.vii. p. 244, and the 
correfpondent engraving. 
HOR'SE-SHOE, a rock in the Irifh Sea, near the eaft 
coaft of Ireland : one mile louth of Wicklow Head. 
HOR'SE-SHOE-HEAD,/ Adifeafe in infants, in which 
the futures of the fkull are too open. Scott. 
HOR'SE-SHOE-POINT, the moft foutherly point of 
land near the eaft end of the ifland of St. Chriftopher. 
Lat. 17. 19. N. Ion. 63. 32. W. Greenwich. 
HOR'SE-SHOE-VETCH. See Hipfocrepis. 
HOR'SE-STEALER. J'. A thief who take's away horfes. 
HOR'SE-TAIL, / in botany. See Eouisetum. 
HOR'SE-TAIL (Shrubby). See Ephedra. 
HOR'SEBACK,/ Riding pofture; the ftate of being 
on a horfe.—If your ramble was on horfeback, I am glad 
of it, on account of your health. Swft to Gay. 
When mannifh Mevia, that two-handed whore, 
Altride on horfeback hunts the Tufcan boar. Dryden. 
HOR'SEMAN, /. One (killed in riding.—A fkilfui 
horfeman and a huntfman bred. Dryden. —One that ferves 
in wars on horfeback.—Encounters between horfemen on. 
the one fide, and foot on the other, are feldom with ex¬ 
tremity of danger; becaufe, as horfemen can hardly break a 
battle on foot, fo men on foot cannot poflibly chafe horfe¬ 
men. Hayward. —A rider; a man on horfeback : 
A horfeman's coat (hall hide 
Thy taper (hape, and comelinefs of fide. Prior. 
HORSEMANSHIP,/ The art of riding; the art of 
managing a horfe: 
Peers grew proud, in hofemanfhip^ t’ excell; 
Newmarket’s glory rofe, as Britain’s fell, Pope. 
HOR'SENECK, a point of land, on the north fide of 
Long Ifland, in North America, between Hog’s Neck and 
Eafton’s Neck. 
HOR'SENECK, a town of the American States, in 
Fairfield county, Connecticut, called by the Indians Pat 
kom fing , fettled in 1680: fix miles north-eaft of Rye, in 
Weft Chefter county, New York ftate. A bloody battle 
was fought here between the Dutch and the Indians, in 
1646, The Dutch with great difficulty obtained the vic¬ 
tory. Great numbers were fiain on both lides; and their 
graves appear to this day. It is fifty-three miles fouth- 
weft of New Haven, and thirty-leven north-eaft of New- 
York city. 
HOR'SENECK, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Efiex county, New Jerfey, on the fouthern bank of Paflaic 
river above the Little'Falls, four miles louth-weft of the 
town of Patterlon. 
HOR'SENS, a fea-port town of Denmark, fituated on 
the Baltic, in Jutland, in the diocefe of Aarhuus. The 
harbour is too (hallow to admit velfels deeply laden, fo 
that goods are brought to the town in lighters. It is a 
place of confiderable trade, with manufactures of flannel 
and other woollen fluffs, and contains two churches : nine¬ 
teen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Aarhuus. Lat. 55. 57. N 
Ion. 9. 45. E. Greenwich.' 
HOR'SEWAY,/ A broad way by which" horfes may 
travel: 
Know’ft thou the way to Dover? 
—Both flile and gate, korjeway, and footpath. Shakefpeare, 
HOR'SHAM, a large and pleafant town in the county 
of Suffex, pleafantly fituated in the Weild, thirteen miles 
from Dorking, twenty from Brighthelmftone, and thirty-* 
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