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Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. "Home-felt quiet. Pope.

Staying at home; not gadding. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Shak.

Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. Milton.

The large nutlike seed of a species of Æsculus (Æ. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.

A dose of physic for a horse. Shak.

A professional rider and trainer of race horses.

A large blood-sucking leech (Hæmopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.

The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.

A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton.

oot of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. Gray. Horse-radish tree. (Bot.) See Moringa.

A city hall or townhouse.

A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell.

Round-shoulded.

Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.

Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] "The superstitious idle-headed eld." Shak.

Idle-headed; stupid. [Obs.]

Breathing or exhaling incense. "Incense-breathing morn." Gray.

A silly, pert girl; -- corresponding to jackanapes. Massinger.

A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (E. purpureum), with purplish flowers, and whorled leaves.

Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this.…