Word Meanings - WINDGALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

• 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.
• Jointured
  of Jointure
• Suppositor
  An apparatus for the introduction of suppositories into the rectum.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Callot
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.
• Having
  of Have
• 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.
• Jointuring
  of Jointure
• Suppositories
  of Suppository
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• HAVIER
  A castrated deer. Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns. Encyc. of Sport.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Haveless
  Having little or nothing.
• Horse-drench
  A dose of physic for a horse.

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