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Definition of Horseflesh
1. Noun. The flesh of horses as food.
Definition of Horseflesh
1. n. The flesh of horses.
Definition of Horseflesh
1. Noun. The flesh of a horse; horse meat. ¹
2. Noun. Horses collectively, with reference to driving, riding, or racing. ¹
3. Noun. A species of Bahama mahogany. ¹
4. Adjective. Of the colour of horseflesh; of a peculiar reddish-brown blee. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Horseflesh
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Medical Definition of Horseflesh
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1. The flesh of horses. "The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day." (Bacon)
2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horseflesh
Literary usage of Horseflesh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1903)
"No person shall sell, offer, expose, or keep for sale any horseflesh for human
food, Signs on horse- elsewhere than in a shop, stall, or place over or upon ..."
2. A Treatise on Food and Dietetics by Frederick William Pavy (1874)
"Mr. Bicknell, in his paper on " The Horse as Food for Man"30 (vol. 16, p. 349),
mentions fifteen European states besides France where horseflesh is eaten. ..."
3. A treatise on food and dietetics, physiologically and therapeutically considered by Frederick William Pavy (1874)
"A Berlin newspaper states that there are at the present time (1863) "seven markets
for horseflesh in that city, in which, during the first ten months of ..."
4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1898)
"Hence a means of recognising horseflesh, and detecting it when mixed with the
flesh of ... The physical characters of horseflesh have been employed for its ..."
5. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1855)
"[The use of horseflesh as an article of food by the Tartars is a well-known fact.]
M. Ilu/.ml, a veterinary surgeon, relates that in 1789, the Parisians ate ..."
6. An Englishman in Paris: (notes and Recollections). by Albert Dresden Vandam (1892)
"... various attempts to introduce horseflesh—The journals deliver their opinions—The
supply of horseflesh as it stood in '70—The Academie des ..."
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