(n.) A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(2) A few months ago I visited a house in Rawalpindi with a giant poster over the windows, depicting a heroic warrior on a gallant white steed.
(3) Fulham will break their record transfer fee when they complete the £4.5m signing of the French Under-21 international Steed Malbranque from Lyon today.
(4) Each molecule of E. coli DNA topoisomerase I has been shown to have three tightly bound zinc(II) ions required for relaxation activity (Tse-Dinh, Y.-C., and Beran-Steed, R.K. (1988) J. Biol.
(5) Or the transport bosses determined to make taking bikes on trains as difficult as possible, who threaten to confiscate steeds locked up on railings outside the station when their deeply inadequate bike racks are full.
(6) If he can identify an experienced player to exert the influence that his most inspired recruit, Steed Malbranque , did for him at Stade Gerland, then so much the better.
(7) If you're really keen, this could be the perfect excuse to fork out for a two-wheeled steed.
(8) You spend a couple of hours getting to know your trusty steed, learning how to handle him or her, before setting off on a mapped route along the Rota Vicentina, staying in pre-booked guesthouses or hotels en route.
(9) We do have permission to use this one ... John Steed and Emma Peel ... although I'm not 100 percent sure it ticks all boxes regarding modern sensibilities.
(10) Took free-kick with pace for winning goal Steed Malbranque 6 Showed hustle and forced Cech into a first-half save.
(11) Arsenal were not even excused further pain as Steed Malbranque added a fifth in stoppage time.
(12) Virulent Bordetella pertussis strains survive intracellularly within human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN), at least in part because of inhibition of phagosome-lysosome fusion (L. L. Steed, M. Setareh, and R. L. Friedman, J. Leukocyte Biol.
(13) Colonel John Steed, in charge of the UN's counter-piracy unit in Nairobi, said that as darkness fell it had become impossible to give chase further.
(14) But your hair will still be raised: 17 rides are currently open, more than enough for a day out, ranging from the vintage galloper merry-go-round, its handsome, brightly painted steeds performing a stately dance, to the hectic, waltzer-meets-rollercoaster swoops of the Crazy Mouse which has us screaming like hopped-up teenagers.