Word Meanings - HORSEBACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The back of a horse.

• Horserake
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• HORSEPOWER
  . 1. The power which a horse exerts. 2. (Mach.)
• Horse-jockey
  A professional rider and trainer of race horses.
• Horseshoe
  A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.
• HORSERADISH
  A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. Gray. Horse-radish tree. (Bot.) See Moringa.
• Horseshoer
  One who shoes horses.
• Horselaugh
  A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw.
• Horseshoeing
  The act or employment of shoeing horses.
• Horse-leech
  A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
• Horsetail
  A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.
• Horse-chestnut
  The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.
• Horse-leechery
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• Horseweed
  A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed.
• Horse-drench
  A dose of physic for a horse.
• Horse-litter
  A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.

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