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ually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey). In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. Farrow.

The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.

To vie; to assume a likeness or equality. Shall pack horses . . . compare with Cæsars Shak.

power of perseverance or persistence. "Indulgent continuers in sin." Hammond. I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer. Shak.

h the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse. Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods. Hudibras.

f conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. The long joirney was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyamce. Prescott. Following th river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Sir W. Raleigh.

Same as Cordwain. in England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.

To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses. Jamieson.

one of his government." Prescott. -- Corner tooth, one of the four teeth which come in a horse's mouth at the age of four years and a half, one on each side of the upper and of the lower jaw, between the middle teeth and the tushes.

o called from its being accompanied by a cornet player. [Obs.] "A body of five cornets of horse." Clarendon.

A small bone in the foot of a horse.

The small pastern bone of the horse and allied animals.

A cushionlike band of vascular tissue at the upper border of the wall of the hoof of the horse and allied animals. It takes an important part in the secretion of the horny walls.

The upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin. James White.

with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.

One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.

The breast, or thet part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.

An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.

The resistance of a horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse.

THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.