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The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests. Arris fillet. See under Arris.

A variety of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse. [Written also finikin.]

A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives. Shak.

A disease in the lips of horses. Flap tile, a tile with a bent up portion, to turn a corner or catch a drip. -- Flap valve (Mech.), a valve which opens and shuts upon one hinged side; a clack valve.

To flay. [Obs.] He will be fleaced first And horse collars made of's skin. J. Fletcher.

White, flecked with minute dots of bay or sorrel; -- said of the color of a horse.

moving with velocity; light and quick in going from place to place; nimble. In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong. Milton.

Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.

at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and lying them over each other. -- Flemish horse (Naut.), an additional footrope at the end of a yard.

To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots. Thackeray.

down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. Walpole.

nd the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure. To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge,…

To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce. They have floundered on from blunder to blunder. Sir W. Hamilton.

A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse. [Eng.]

The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidæ); a colt; a filly. Foal teeth (Zoöl.), the first set of teeth of a horse. -- In foal, With foal, being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.

That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

oot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry. "Both horse and foot." Milton.

Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse. Sir W. Scott.

A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.

e rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.