(n.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.
(n.) The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.
(n.) Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot.
(n.) A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.
(n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
(n.) Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.
(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; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.
(n.) See Footrope, a.
(a.) A breastband for a leadsman.
(a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.
(a.) A jackstay.
(v. t.) To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.
(v. t.) To sit astride of; to bestride.
(v. t.) To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male.
(v. t.) To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.
(v. t.) To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
(v. i.) To get on horseback.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
(2) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
(3) Electron self-exchange has been measured by an NMR technique for horse-heart myoglobin.
(4) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
(5) Biosyntheses of TXA2 and PGI2 were carried out using arachidonic acid as a substrate and horse platelet and aorta microsomes as sources of TXA2 and PGI2 synthetases respectively.
(6) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(7) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(8) The subjects were divided into 4 ages groups, each comprising 8 horses (4 of each sex).
(9) The assay was developed using serum antibodies collected from horses convalescing from strangles.
(10) One middle carpal joint of each horse was injected 3 times with 100 mg of 6-alpha-methylprednisolone acetate, at 14-day intervals.
(11) Horses in heavy training may require more energy than they can consume on a conventional diet.
(12) These melanocytic tumors in young horses are distinct from melanomas in aged horses in their location, epithelial involvement, and age of horses affected.
(13) This finding supports the view that their sphincteroid action would be less efficient and that an additional closing mechanism of vascular origin may be required at the ileocaecal papilla of the horse.
(14) Report on the results of serological studies on the species Leptospira interrogans in cattle (19,607), swine (6,348), dogs (182) and horses (88) from the Netherlands during the period from 1969 to 1974.
(15) When rabbit and horse sera were used instead of human serum for cultivation, in both groups the share of positive cultures increased and more large forms of B. hominis cells were observed.
(16) Bacteriologic culturing of fecal samples from 28 clinically normal horses yielded only 2 salmonella isolations, S manhattan in each case.
(17) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
(18) Five horses raced successfully and lowered the lifetime race records, 1 horse was sound and trained successfully, but died of colic, and 1 horse was not lame in early training.
(19) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
(20) Western immunoblot reactivity showed that the antisera collected from these infected horses at 4 to 5 weeks PI recognized some or all of the six major E. risticii component antigens (70, 55, 51, 44, 33, and 28 kilodaltons), all of which were apparent surface components.
Ungulate
Definition:
(a.) Shaped like a hoof.
(a.) Furnished with hoofs. See the Note under Nail, n., 1.
(n.) Any hoofed quadruped; one of the Ungulata.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mysłajek says only scientific arguments – the need to regenerate forests and control the ungulate population – can save Europe’s wild carnivores, especially the unpopular wolf.
(2) In previous studies we reported that immunization of mice with ungulate insulins induced the development of antiinsulin antibodies, which include an idiotype that appeared to recognize the part of the insulin molecule recognized by the hormone receptor.
(3) The purpose of this publication is to describe a method by which this feat has been achieved in 150 pound ungulates undergoing prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass.
(4) SP-IR fibers were abundant in the musculature of the ungulate papillae at the reticulo-omasal orifice and in the smooth muscle of the omasal leaves, moderately dense in the omasal pillar, and low in density in the inner muscle layer of the reticulo-omasal orifice and in the muscle of the omasal wall.
(5) Comparison with other ungulates shows that pig myoglobin is far from other artiodactyls previously studied (ox and sheep) and close to the eutherian ancestral chain.
(6) The analytical results indicated that a lipid fraction from all of these sources contained ceramide, galactose, galactosamine, sulfate, and sialic acid in equimolar amounts, and that the fractions were similar to the ungulic acid isolated earlier from a horse's hoof.
(7) Evidence for a controlling and therefore protective role of neutralizing Ig against lentiviruses has been defined in natural and experimental infections with equine infectious anemia virus of ungulate members in the family equidae.
(8) Toroviridae, recently discovered as causes of diarrhoea in ungulates, do not seem to be at all important as causes of diarrhoea in humans.
(9) The onset of mRNADA4 accumulation after a single PRL injection was rapid with statistically significant levels occurring by 3 h. Several lactogenic type hormones, but not an ungulate GH, were potent inducers of mRNADA4.
(10) Three domestic and 12 wild species of ungulate have been recorded as hosts of Rhipicephalus glabroscutatum.
(11) In ungulates, intestinal absorption of maternal immunoglobulins from colostrum plays a vital role in the acquisition of passive immunity during early neonatal life.
(12) Visna virus is an ungulate lentivirus that is distantly related to the primate lentiviruses, including human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1).
(13) This report describes the first occurrence of yersiniosis in free-ranging muskoxen and the first documentation of large scale mortality due to this disease in a free-ranging population of wild ungulates.
(14) The authors were at that time involved in comparison of pulsatile flow to steady flow cardiopulmonary bypass in large ungulates.
(15) An investigation of brucellosis caused by Brucella suis, type 4, in reindeer, Rangifer tarandus L., and other ungulates inoculated experimentally with virulent isolates was undertaken to observe the course of infection, follow titres of serum agglutins, and determine the extent to which intraspecific and interspecific transmission might occur among confined animals.
(16) Unconjugated A was present in blood of the rodents and domestic ungulates studied, while the parent sulphate could be demonstrated only in rat, dog, pig and cow.
(17) The main characteristics of the Purkinje fibers are: cable-like structure in birds, ungulates, and proximal BB fibers of other mammals; lack of transverse tubular system; generally little contractile material associated with a high number of intermediate filaments; few mitochondria and low mitochondrial enzyme activity; high amount of glycogen and anaerobic ability rendering them relatively resistant to hypoxia.
(18) Some disease organisms were fed to a captive bird to discover if they could survive passage through the tract, and the role of these scavenging birds in the spread of diseases among wild ungulates is discussed.
(19) On the other hand regulations concerning game hunted for food (Deer: Red deer, Sika deer, Fallow deer, Roe deer; Horned ungulates: European mouflon, Chamois; Wild boar; European hare; European rabbit; game such as Badger and Raccoon) and regulations to be observed by hunters, mainly for the gaining of meat were discussed.
(20) Sera obtained from wild ungulates, carnivores, and rodents in Colorado were tested for neutralizing (N) antibody against vesicular stomatitis, New Jersey serotype (VSNJ), virus to determine their involvement in the 1982 Colorado VSNJ epizootic in domestic animals.