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A strap that runs across a horse's breast. Ash.

To suffer to take breath, or recover the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse. A moment breathed his panting steed. Sir W. Scott.

That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.

ted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two- winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]

A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag and maneuver guns where horses can not be used.

The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.

The hair on the eyelids of a horse. Bailey.

hich extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.

Subjugated; trained for use, as a horse.

Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.

A native or a Mexican horse of small size. [Western U.S.]

The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great.

with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.

Having bad or speckled eyes. "A buck-eyed horse." James White.

A horse or mule that bucks.

A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Æsculus) as the horse chestnut. The Ohio buckeye, or Fetid buckeye, is Æsculus glabra. -- Red buckeye is Æ. Pavia. -- Small buckeye is Æ. paviflora. -- Sweet buckeye, or Yellow buckeye, is Æ. flava.

lley and does great injury to domestic animals, often killing large numbers of cattle and horses. In Europe the Columbatz fly is a species with similar habits. -- Buffalo grass (Bot.), a species of short, sweet grass (Buchloë dactyloides), from two to four inches high, covering the prairies on which the buffaloes, or…

g; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend. If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher. Shak.

A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle. [Eng.] Villebeck prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a buggy. Beaconsfield.

The fetlock of a horse.