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Word Meanings - NEIGH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny. 2. To scoff or sneer; to jeer. Neighed at his nakedness. Beau. & Fl.

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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.
  • NEIGHBORING
    Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries.
  • UTTERNESS
    The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
  • UTTERLY
    In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
  • 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.
  • SNEER
    1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. 2. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. 3. To show mirth awkwardly. Tatler. Syn.
  • UTTER
    1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser. 2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer.
  • HORSE-JOCKEY
    1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses.
  • NEIGH
    1. To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny. 2. To scoff or sneer; to jeer. Neighed at his nakedness. Beau. & Fl.
  • 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.
  • SCOFFERY
    The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.
  • HORSEWHIP
    A whip for horses.
  • UTTERMOST
    Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end. "In this uttermost distress." Milton.
  • UNUTTERABLE
    Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
  • MUTTERER
    One who mutters.
  • GUTTER
    1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
  • REAR-HORSE
    A mantis.
  • BUTTER-SCOTCH
    A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
  • STRAW-CUTTER
    An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
  • 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.
  • SWARD-CUTTER
    A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
  • PUTTER-ON
    An instigator. Shak.
  • SLUTTERY
    The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton.
  • 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

 

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