Word Meanings - STRINGHALT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.

• Twitcher
  One who, or that which, twitches.
• Horseback
  The back of a horse.
• 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.
• Twitch grass
  See Quitch grass.
• 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.
• HINDERMOSTHINDMOST
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2.
• Contraction
  The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
• Horse-drench
  A dose of physic for a horse.
• Horse-litter
  A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.
• Horsewhip
  A whip for horses.
• 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
• Convulsive
  Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.
• Horsefish
  The moonfish (Selene setipinnis).
• Horsemen
  of Horseman
• Horsewomen
  of Horsewoman
• 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.
• Convulsively
  in a convulsive manner.

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