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- English Word Horse power Definition The power which a horse exerts.
- English Word Horse power Definition A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second, etc.
- English Word Horse power Definition A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery; a horse motor.
- English Word Horse-chestnut Definition The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.
- English Word Horse-chestnut Definition The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes.
- English Word Horse-drench Definition A dose of physic for a horse.
- English Word Horse-drench Definition The appliance by which the dose is administred.
- English Word Horse-jockey Definition A professional rider and trainer of race horses.
- English Word Horse-jockey Definition A trainer and dealer in horses.
- English Word Horse-leech Definition A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.
- English Word Horse-leech Definition A farrier; a veterinary surgeon.
- English Word Horse-leechery Definition The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
- English Word Horse-litter Definition A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses.
- English Word Horse-radish Definition A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine.
- English Word Horseback Definition The back of a horse.
- English Word Horseback Definition An extended ridge of sand, gravel, and bowlders, in a half-stratified condition.
- English Word Horsed Definition of Horse
- English Word Horsefeet Definition of Horsefoot
- English Word Horsefish Definition The moonfish (Selene setipinnis).
- English Word Horsefish Definition The sauger.
- English Word Horseflesh Definition The flesh of horses.
- English Word Horseflesh Definition Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh.
- English Word Horseflies Definition of Horsefly
- English Word Horsefly Definition Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
- English Word Horsefly Definition The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).
- English Word Horsefoot Definition The coltsfoot.
- English Word Horsefoot Definition The Limulus or horseshoe crab.
- English Word Horsehair Definition A hair of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; a fabric or tuft made of such hairs.
- English Word Horsehead Definition The silver moonfish (Selene vomer).
- English Word Horsehide Definition The hide of a horse.