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A two-wheeled chaise drawn by two horses abreast.

To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean. Your short horse is soon curried. Beau. & FL.

kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in curryng a horse.

Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.

A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short. [Obs] Nares.

A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.

To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.

A small, light one-horse sleigh.

Rare; valuable; costly. [Obs.] Full many a deynté horse had he in stable. Chaucer.

upeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother. Our sire and dam, now confined to horses, are a relic of this age (13th century) . . . .Dame is used of a hen; we now make a great difference between dame and dam. T. L. K. Oliphant. The dam runs lowing up end down, Looking the way her harmless young one went. Sha…

Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. Sir W. Scott.

A short, spirited effort or trial of speed upon a race course; -- used in horse racing, when a single trial constitutes the race.

leigh, or other vechicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.

of wood used as an anchor buoy. -- Dead heat, a heat or course between two or more race horses, boats, etc., in which they come out exactly equal, so that neither wins. -- Dead horse, an expression applied to a debt for wages paid in advance. [Law] -- Dead language, a language which is no longer spoken or in common…

ton with a scythe. Death! great proprietor of all. Young. And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that at on him was Death. Rev. vi. 8.

A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse.

A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.

A light, open, two-wheeled carriage for one horse; a kind of gig. ("The term and vehicle common about 1825." Latham.)

A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in

A war horse. [Obs.] Chaucer.