Bar iron
() See under Iron. |
Box-iron
(n.) A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within. |
Branding iron
() An iron to brand with. |
Brand iron
() A branding iron. |
Brand iron
() A trivet to set a pot on. |
Brand iron
() The horizontal bar of an andiron. |
Bridle iron
() A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had |
Cast iron
() Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace |
Cast-iron
(a.) Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron |
Cramp iron
() See Cramp, n., 2. |
Grozing iron
() A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass. |
Grozing iron
() A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe. |
Harping iron
() A harpoon. |
Horse
(n.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus |
Horse
(n.) The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male |
Horse
(n.) Mounted soldiery |
Horse
(n.) A frame with legs, used to support something |
Horse
(n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. |
Horse
(n.) Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse |
Horse
(n.) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore |
Horse
(n.) See Footrope, a. |
Horse
(a.) A breastband for a leadsman. |
Horse
(a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon. |
Horse
(a.) A jackstay. |
Horse
(v. t.) To provide with a horse, or with horses |
Horse
(v. t.) To sit astride of |
Horse
(v. t.) To cover, as a mare |
Horse
(v. t.) To take or carry on the back |
Horse
(v. t.) To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged |
Horse
(v. i.) To get on horseback. |
Horse-chestnut
(n.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. |
Horse-chestnut
(n.) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes. |
Horse-drench
(n.) A dose of physic for a horse. |
Horse-drench
(n.) The appliance by which the dose is administred. |
Horse Guards
() A body of cavalry so called |
Horse-jockey
(n.) A professional rider and trainer of race horses. |
Horse-jockey
(n.) A trainer and dealer in horses. |
Horse-leech
(n.) A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses. |
Horse-leech
(n.) A farrier |
Horse-leechery
(n.) The business of a farrier |
Horse-litter
(n.) A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. |
Horse power
() The power which a horse exerts. |
Horse power
() A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute |
Horse power
() A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery |
Horse-radish
(n.) A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. |
Iron
(n.) The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite, magnetite, etc.), or a hydrous oxide (as limonite, turgite, etc.). It is reduced on an enormous scale in three principal forms |
Iron
(n.) An instrument or utensil made of iron |
Iron
(n.) Fetters |
Iron
(n.) Strength |
Iron
(n.) Of, or made of iron |