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To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider. [Local slang U. S.]

A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.

Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. By adding chaff to his corn, the horse must take more time to eat it. In this way chaff is very useful. Ywatt.

e for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two- wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig. Shak. Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view with scorn two pages and a chair. Pope.

h top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thoroughbraces. It is usually drawn by one horse.

To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.

The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse. [Written also champfrain and chamfrain.]

The fore part of a horse's head.

bank bill. He pulled out a thirty-pound note and bid me change it. Goldsmith. To change a horse, or To change hand (Man.), to turn or bear the horse's head from one hand to the other, from the left to right, or from the right to the left. -- To change hands, to change owners. -- To change one's tune, to become less c…

To sing, as in reciting a chant. To chant (or chaunt) horses, to sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter. Thackeray.

A divice placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.

A horse for battle or parade. Macaulay. And furious every charger neighed. Campbell.

A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [Colloq.] He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens.

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

The horse chestnut (often so used in England).

A horse; hence, a support or frame. Cheval glass, a mirror swinging in a frame, and large enough to reflect the full leght figure.

A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. "Mount, chevaliers; to arms." Shak.