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cies of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.

To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.

A horse or a person that ambles.

An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback.

A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.

An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

ult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury. Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self- mettle tires him. Shak.

Good or used against bubonic plague; as, antibubonic serum, obtained from immunized horses; antibubonic vaccine, a sterilized bouillon culture of the plague bacillus; antibubonic measures.

A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.

To form or bend into the shape of an arch. The horse arched his neck. Charlesworth.

rder to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force.

or weapons of offense or defense. He lays down his arms, but not his wiles. Milton. Three horses and three goodly suits of arms. Tennyson.

spose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade. Campbell. These doubts will be arrayed before their minds. Farrar.

A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails. White. Arrest of judgment (Law), the staying or stopping of a judgment, after verdict, for legal cause. The motion for this purpose is called a motion in arrest of judgment.

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed.

In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse.

With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching. White.