Word Meanings - CAPARISON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative.

• Horsewood
  A West Indian tree (Calliandra latifolia) with showy, crimson blossoms.
• Housling
  Sacramental; as, housling fire.
• HORSELEECH
  A large blood-sucking leech (Hæmopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses. 2. A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
• Covertly
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• Horseflies
  of Horsefly
• Horsemanship
  The act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege.
• Horsemint
  A coarse American plant of the Mint family (Monarda punctata).
• Horseworm
  The larva of a botfly.
• Houseleek
  A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.
• HORSELEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• Covertness
  Secrecy; privacy.
• Horsefly
  Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
• Horsenail
  A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.
• Houseless
  Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.
• Ornamental
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.
• HORSELESS
  Being without a horse; specif., not requiring a horse; -- said of certain vehicles in which horse power has been replaced by electricity, steam, etc.; as, a horseless carriage or truck.
• Collectively
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.

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