horsefleshn.
1. The flesh of a horse, esp. as an article of food.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] > horse
horseflesh?1533
horsemeat1853
chevaline1868
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Div v Horse flesshe, cher de cheual.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 421 They preferre horse-flesh before other meats, esteeming it stronger nourishment.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ii. 31 The Horseflesh comes to Market at Cachao very frequently, and is as much esteemed as Beef.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 59. ⁋6 They were reduced to eat Horse-Flesh.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 228 So early as the eighth of June horseflesh was almost the only meat which could be purchased.
2. Living horses collectively, usually with reference to riding, driving, or racing.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > collectively
stud?1316
horseflesha1400
cattlea1680
cavalrya1695
stringa1809
a1400–50 Alexander 2161 What aylez you nowe?.. Wheþer euer your hertes for horse-fleshez abaytez?
1492 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 660 Hors flesche is of suche a price here that my purce is schante able to bye on hors.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cciiv Herauldes spared no horseflesh in riding betwene the kyng and the erle.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 614 As for horse-flesh, I haue alwaies heard..That the breed of Italy passeth al others.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 157. ⁋7 A Person..profoundly learned in Horse-flesh.
1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship iv. 20 As honest a man as any that deals in horse flesh.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. vii. 122 Anything that horse-flesh is capable of, a real good Oxford hack..will do.
a. Surgery (see quot. 1658).
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1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxvi. 175 The flesh holds the two ends of the [fractured] bone together, for that reason is it called Horse-flesh, because it is harder then other flesh.
b. = dead horse n. at horse n. 19.
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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > work charged but not done
horseflesh1688
horse1770
hoss1968
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 122/1 (Printing) If any Journeyman set down in his Bill..more Work then he hath done that Week, that surplusage is called Horse Flesh.
c. (In full horseflesh wood, horseflesh mahogany.) The sabicu tree, Lysiloma Sabicu, a native of Bahama.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies
sweetwood1607
mastic1657
acajou1666
bastard locust tree1670
bastard locust tree1670
alligator wood1696
muskwood1696
lancewood1697
rodwood1716
cog-wood1725
soapwood1733
down tree?1740
pigeon plum1743
break-axe tree1756
horse-wood1756
loblolly whitewood1756
Spanish elm1756
trumpet-tree1756
ahuehuete1778
ocote1787
locust tree1795
Madeira wood1796
peroba1813
roble1814
louro1816
cecropia1824
purple heart1825
wallaba1825
trumpet-wood1836
gumbo-limbo1837
poui1838
quebracho1839
snake-wood1843
yacca1843
horseflesh wood1851
necklace tree1858
Honduras rosewood1860
turanira1862
softwood1864
wattle-wood1864
balsa tree1866
primavera1871
rauli1874
lemon-wood1879
wheel-tree1882
Spanish stopper1883
gurgeon-stopper1884
pinkwood-tree1884
stopper1884
sloth-tree1885
imbaubaa1893
Spanish cedar1907
amarant1909
Parana pine1916
imbuya1919
mastic-bully1920
banak1921
timbo1924
becuiba1934
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 195 Horseflesh-wood, Rio Janeiro.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 813 Horse-flesh, or Bahama mahogany. Nassau.
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 160 The timbers being of native hard wood (horse-flesh).
Compounds
C1. attributive, usually in reference to the colour, a peculiar reddish bronze.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > brownish-red
rustya1398
hepaticc1420
horseflesh1530
rubiginousa1538
iron1587
bricky1615
ferrugineous1633
sand-reda1639
brickish1648
ferruginous1656
lateritious1656
brick-coloured1675
blood bay1684
testaceous1688
rust-coloureda1691
brick-red1740
brick-dust-like1765
maroon1771
rufous1782
brick-dusty1817
rusted1818
worm red1831
brownish-red1832
brown-red1835
foxy1850
rust1854
henna-coloured1865
chestnut-red1882
terra-cotta1882
copper-red1883
fox-red1910
oxblood1918
tony1921
henna-brown1931
henna-red2002
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/2 Horse flesshe colour.
1552 in Surrey Archæol. Coll. (1869) 4 97 Item iij dekyns of sylke one of blew another of grene and the other of horse flesh color.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 472 Some whereof are called Carnations, others Cloue Gilloflowers,..some Pagiants or Pagion colour, Horseflesh, blunket, purple, white..Gilloflowers.
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 101 April..The Horseflesh Fly. This fly is taken all the month two hours before sun set till twilight.
C2.
horseflesh ore n. an ore of copper, bornite.
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > copper ore > types of
red copper1507
misy1543
grey copper1590
yellow ore1630
grey orea1728
pitch ore1776
red copper ore1776
fahlerz1796
tile-ore1823
cuprite1850
lettsomite1850
velvet copper-ore1850
yellows1851
meneghinite1852
peacock copper1858
peacock ore1858
horseflesh ore1868
plush-copper1881
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > sphalenite group > copper iron sulphide
pyrites1567
yellow ore1630
podar1778
magnetic pyrites1809
bornite1811
towanite1852
peacock copper1858
peacock ore1858
homichlin1859
horseflesh ore1868
talnakhite1969
1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 45 Crystalline varieties [of bornite] are found in Cornwall..called by the miners ‘horse-flesh ore’.
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