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Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.

On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.

Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.

To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another. To bargain away, to dispose of in a bargain; -- usually with a sense of loss or disadvantage; as, to bargain away one's birthright. "The heir . . . had somehow bargained away the estate." G. Eliot.

An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.

The housing of a horse. [Obs.]

A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. Macaulay.

A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns. Barbette battery. See Barbette. -- Battery d'enfilade, or Enfilading battery, one that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a…

Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses. Bay cat (Zoöl.), a wild cat of Africa and the East Indies (Felis aurata). -- Bay lynx (Zoöl.), the common American lynx (Felis, or Lynx, rufa).

Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse. Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips.

hich the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.

That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.

A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

h. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. -- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on foot. -- To beat the wing, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. -- To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music…

or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs. And made for him [a horse] a leafy bed. Byron. I wash, wring, brew, bake, . . . make the beds. Shak. In bed he slept not for my urging it. Shak.

entury, hanging down so as to cover the belly. Shak. -- Belly fretting, the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth. Johnson. -- Belly timber, food. [Ludicrous] Prior. -- Belly worm, a worm that breeds or lives in the belly (stomach or intestines). Johnson.

A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.

stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak.

o clothe; to deck. After them followed two other chariots covered with red satin, and the horses betrapped with the same. Stow.

A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. B. Jonson.