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Definition of Horse-head
1. Noun. Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies.
Generic synonyms: Carangid, Carangid Fish
Specialized synonyms: Lookdown, Lookdown Fish, Selene Vomer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horse-head
Literary usage of Horse-head
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico by John Russell Bartlett (1854)
"Found the water at the horse-head Crossing, which was a quarter of a mile from
our encampment, to afford the greatest facilities. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Ephraim Williams, Dudley Atkins Tyng, Octavius Pickering, Theron Metcalf, Luther Stearns Cushing, Horace Gray, Charles Allen, Albert Gallatin Browne (1899)
"I stepped to the left toward the gutter, and was about opposite the horse's head —
to the left, on the side I sat. I did not go out of the travelled way, ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"Here horse's head and snake remind us of the • r voto tablets, ... Both horse's
head and snake reappear in the following, which seems to belong to the ex ..."
4. The Arts in Early England by Gerard Baldwin Brown (1915)
"... the familiar shape of the horse's head, and beyond this came the usual eye.
The mode of wearing and the use of the ' girdle hanger' present difficulties ..."
5. The Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Etc. by Jean Froissart (1908)
"which he spurred his horse and galloped up to the king, whom he approached so
near that his horse's head touched the crupper of the king's horse. ..."
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