Word Meanings - STALKING-HORSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.

• 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.
• Horsewhip
  A whip for horses.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Horse-drench
  A dose of physic for a horse.
• Horse-litter
  A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.
• Horsewomen
  of Horsewoman
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Horsefish
  The moonfish (Selene setipinnis).
• Horsemen
  of Horseman
• Horsewoman
  A woman who rides on horseback.
• HIMSELFHIMSELVEHIMSELVEN
  Themselves. See Hemself. [Obs.] Chaucer.
• Horseflesh
  The flesh of horses.
• Horseman
  A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.
• Horsewood
  A West Indian tree (Calliandra latifolia) with showy, crimson blossoms.
• HORSEGUARDS
  A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign. The Horse Guards, a name given to the former headquarters of the commander in chief of the British army, at Whitehal

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