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ited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose. "A knight upon a steed." Chaucer. Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed. Shak.

Having no steed; without a horse.

With gaunt or slender legs. "An armgaunt steed." Shak.

t of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly. Underneath the belly of their steeds. Shak.

lain. Before his lord the ready spaniel bounds. Pope. And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Byron.

ver the natural breathing; to rest; as, to breathe a horse. A moment breathed his panting steed. Sir W. Scott.

of cattle and other animals; green food. Spenser. Sheep, goats, and oxen, and the nobler steed, On browse, and corn, and flowery meadows feed. Dryden.

th housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. The steeds, caparisoned with purple, stand. Dryden.

gnity, or solemnity. [Poetic]. The gilded car of day. Milton. The towering car, the sable steeds. Tennyson.

to masticate, as food in eating; to chew, as the cud; to champ, as the bit. The trampling steed, with gold and purple trapped, Chawing the foamy bit, there fiercely stood. Surrey.

a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup. He cherups brisk ear-erecting steed. Cowper.

of attack; to place in rest. He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And spurred his steed to full career. Sir W. Scott. To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor. Mortimer.

To run through or over. The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. Pope.

; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check. Part wield their arms, part curb the foaming steed. Milton. Where pinching want must curbthy warm desires. Prior.

To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton.

Emaciated. "Emaciate steeds." T. Warton.

t (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.

Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited. One curbed the fiery steed. Dryden.

Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition. "Drowsy-flighted steeds." Milton.

To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds. Pope.