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stone-horse
[stone n. 17 f.]
An uncastrated or entire horse; a stallion. Now only dial.
1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa iii. 156 They carrie stone⁓horses about with them, which for a certaine fee, they will let others haue to couer their mares. 1679Shadwell True Widow iii. 43 I'll hold you six to four of the Gelding against the Mare; gold to silver on the bay Stone-horse against the Flea-bitten. 1781W. Blane Ess. Hunting (1788) 69 The Doctor galloped his grey stone-horse forty miles on end. 1847Nicolas Sir C. Hatton 340 In the 33rd Hen. VIII. an Act was passed that..every other person whose wife wore any French hood..should maintain one stone trotting horse. [The Act itself has stoned.]
b. Applied allusively to a man.
1580Fulke Dangerous Rock 167 But what if your popish geldings, by neying at euery mans wife,..proue them selues to be stone horses. 1640Shirley St. Patrick v. i. H 2, Cannot a Mare come into the ground, but you must be leaping you stone horses.
c. attrib.
1546in Phillipps Wills (c 1830) 487 A stone horsse colte. 1728E. S[mith] Compl. Housew. (ed. 2) 243 Strain the Posset on 7 or 9 globules of Stone-Horse dung tied up in a cloth. 1836R. Furness Astrologer ii. Wks. (1858) 152 Bear's grease,..fox-lungs, stone-horse warts. |