Word Meanings - WIRE-HEEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast.

• Horselaugh
  A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw.
• Horseshoeing
  The act or employment of shoeing horses.
• Otherwhiles
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; /ccasionally.
• 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.
• Otherwise
  In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily.
• 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.
• 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
• Beasthood
  State or nature of a beast.
• 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.
• 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.
• Beastings
  See Biestings.
• Horsefish
  The moonfish (Selene setipinnis).

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