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t knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Colt's tooth, an imperfect or superfluous tooth in young horses. -- To cast one's colt's tooth, to cease from youthful wantonness. "Your colt's tooth is not cast yet." Shak. -- To have a colt's tooth, to be wanton. Chaucer.…

s the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning, and Colt-Browning, pistol.

a system using a patented revolving cylinder, holding six cartridges, patented by Samuel Colt, an American inventor, in 1835. With various modifications, it has for many years been the standard for the United States army.

See under Colt.

A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard. [Written also coulter.]

Like a colt; wanton; frisky. He was all coltish, full of ragery. Chaucer. -- Colt"ish*ly, adv. -- Colt"ish*ness, n.

silago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine. Butterbur coltsfoot (Bot.), a European plant (Petasites vulgaris).

To unhorse. [Obs. & R.] Shak.

The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.

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.

Same as Colter.

A colter. See Colter.

Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc.

To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate. [R.] While that the colter rusts That should deracinate such savagery. Shak.

A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal. Neighing in likeness of a filly foal. Shak.

The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidæ); a colt; a filly. Foal teeth (Zoöl.), the first set of teeth of a horse. -- In foal, With foal, being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.

(Bot.) See Coltsfoot.

with the hands. The hardness of the winters forces the breeders to house and handle their colts six months every year. Sir W. Temple.

A sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year.

The coltsfoot.