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To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.

An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail. Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.

Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.

Body cloths for horses. [Obs.] Addison. -- Body coat, a gentleman's dress coat. -- Body color (Paint.), a pigment that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash. -- Body of a law (Law), the main and operative part. -- Body louse (Zoöl.), a species of louse (Pediculus vestimenti), which…

To spring suddenly aside, or out of the regular path; as, the horse bolted.

One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside.

Buzzing, like a bumblebee; as, the bombylious noise of the horse fly. [Obs.] Derham.

Hose made to be worn with boots, as by travelers on horseback. Sir W. Scott.

different species, some of which are particularly troublesome to domestic animals, as the horse, ox, and sheep, on which they deposit their eggs. A common species is one of the botflies of the horse (Gastrophilus equi), the larvæ of which (bots) are taken into the stomach of the animal, where they live several months a…

of botfly, especially those larvæ which infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and are supposed to be the cause of various ailments. [Written also botts.]

Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.

An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.

To make to bound or leap; as, to bound a horse. [R.] Shak.

An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.

A man who uses a bow; an archer. The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen. Jer. iv. 29. Bowman's root. (Bot.) See Indian physic, under Indian.

A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him; also, an inclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. A horse . . . which Philip had bought . . . and because of his fierceness kept him within a brake of iron bars. J. Brende.

To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle. "To break a colt." Spenser. Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute Shak.

A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede.

t of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.