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The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider when he mounts.

A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen.

A shoer of horses

The art of shoeing horses.

assions; unseen, inexplicable influence. The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination. Waller.

Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.

To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling. A horse leech will hardly fasten on a fish. Sir T. Browne.

A horse of a favel or dun color. To curry favel. See To curry favor, under Favor, n.

The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.

A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.

A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.

An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.

ees or size, without spinning or weaving. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .

d for its strong- smelling seeds, which are "now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay." J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants, 1881).

To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. Macaulay.

rojection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.

), an American herb of the genus Triosteum (T. perfoliatum); -- called also feverwort amd horse gentian. -- Fever sore, a carious ulcer or necrosis. Miner.

The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.

A thill horse. [Prov. Eng.]