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Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. Yu

A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

A species of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis. Youatt.

One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of the horse's foot.

A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.

To eat gluttonously or to satiety. Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. Tennyson.

A horse, considered in reference to his gait; as, a good goer; a safe goer. This antechamber has been filled with comers and goers. Macaulay.

A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo.

g the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses.

nake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.

ate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse. Govern well thy appetite. Milton.

Grain colors, dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sect. -- Grain leather. (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc. -- Grain moth (Zoöl.), one of several small moths, of the family Tineidæ (as Tinea granella and Butalis cereAlella), whose larvæ devou…

Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals.

A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.

To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon. Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day. That coats thy life, my gallant gray. Sir W. Scott.

An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences. Grease bush. (Bot.) Same as Grease wood (below). -- Grease moth (Zoöl.), a pyralid moth (Aglossa pinguinalis) whose larva eats greasy…

Affected with the disease called grease; as, the heels of a horse. See Grease, n., 2.

a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.

Tenderness or stiffness in the foot of a horse, which causes him to move in a hobbling manner.