Word Meanings - ESTRAPADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.
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- HORSE-LEECHERY
The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses. - HORSEMAN
A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1. - HORSEKNOP
Knapweed. - HORSERAKE
A rake drawn by a horse. - HORSEFLESH
1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on - HORSEPLAY
Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden. - ACTION
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of - RIDERLESS
Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley. - HORSE-JOCKEY
1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses. - ACTIONABLE
That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable. - HORSEMINT
A coarse American plant of the Mint family . In England, the wild mint . - HORSEWORM
The larva of a botfly. - HORSESHOE
The Limulus of horsehoe crab. Horsehoe head , an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe. Dunglison. -- Horsehoe magnet, an artificial magnet in - HORSEWOOD
A West Indian tree with showy, crimson blossoms. - HORSEWHIP
A whip for horses. - HORSE-LITTER
A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton. - HORSEWEED
A composite plant , which is a common weed. - HORSE-DRENCH
1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred. - HORSESHOEING
The act or employment of shoeing horses. - HORSESHOER
One who shoes horses. - REACTIONIST
A reactionary. C. Kingsley. - REAR-HORSE
A mantis. - MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon. - REDACTION
The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest. - CHYLIFACTION
The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process. - SAWHORSE
A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck. - FACTION
One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, - DISTRACTION
1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in - REFACTION
Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell. - COLLIQUEFACTION
A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon. - DIRECT ACTION
See BELOW - UNDERACTION
Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden. - SEA HORSE
1. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus. The walrus. Any fish of the genus Hippocampus. Note: In a passage