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A large leather flap which covers the saddletree. [Western U.S.]

That on which anything is mounted; a setting; hence, a saddle horse. [Obs.] Spenser.

n having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were over fifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.

allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands. [Written also Mososaurus.]

Infested with moths; moth-eaten. "An old mothy saddle." Shak.

arriage. Navel gall, a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle. Johnson. -- Navel point. (Her.) Same as Nombril.

A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.

A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse. Chaucer.

Formerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle; hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.

A kind of rustic saddle. Tusser.

To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or Slang]

The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.

A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride. His [a soldier's] shank pillion without stirrups. Spenser.

A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.

An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles.

A genus of large extinct marine reptiles, having a very long neck, a small head, and paddles for swimming. It lived in the Mesozoic age.

y, or the end of Christmas holidays. -- Plow staff. (a) A kind of long-handled spade or paddle for cleaning the plowshare; a paddle staff. (b) A plow handle. -- Snow plow, a structure, usually

The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow.

To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.]

hich does not rise above the ground; as, the radical leaves of the dandelion and the sidesaddle flower.