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Wyoming, but now mostly on reservations in the Indian Territory. They are noted for their horsemanship.

A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry. "His Memphian chivalry." Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. Shak.

A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.

from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation. This horse load of citations and fathers. Milton.

A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. Branchial clefts. See under Branchial.

A small breeze or horsefly. [North of Eng. & Scot.] Jamieson.

tal, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.

A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak. Youatt.

A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.

The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf. The clod Where once their sultan's horse has trod. Swift.

r pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.

One of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland. They are about sixteen hands high and usually brown or bay.

A coach horse.

One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade. Shak.

An external covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek. Fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell. Milton.

A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle. [Eng.]

Quite certain. [Colloq.] I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.

A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. Darwin.

The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone. Coffin bone, the foot bone of the horse and allied animals, inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding to the third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals. -- Coffin joint, the joint next above the coffin bone.…

Not thoroughbred; -- said of animals, as horses, which are derived from the common stock of a country.