Definition of Man-on-a-horse

1. Noun. An edible agaric with yellow gills and a viscid yellow cap that has a brownish center.

Exact synonyms: Tricholoma Flavovirens
Generic synonyms: Agaric
Group relationships: Genus Tricholoma, Tricholoma

Lexicographical Neighbors of Man-on-a-horse

man-made
man-made fiber
man-mark
man-midwife
man-midwives
man-milk
man-month
man-months
man-o'-war
man-o'-war suit
man-o-war
man-of-letters
man-of-the-earth
man-of-war
man-of-war bird
man-on-a-horse (current term)
man-portable
man-pussies
man-size
man-sized
man-stealer
man-stealers
man-tiger
man-tigers
man-to-man
man-to-man defense

Literary usage of Man-on-a-horse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw (1911)
"BLANCO [to Strapper] She saw a man on a horse when she was too drunk to tell which was the man and ... Is a man on a horse the same as a man on foot? Yah! ..."

2. Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin by Laurence Binyon (1898)
"A rock-bordered path in the foreground with a man on a horse r., and cattle beyond passing 1. under the hanging boulders of a hillside, ..."

3. A Trip Through the Eastern Caucasus: With a Chapter on the Languages of the by John Abercromby Abercromby (1889)
"One represents a stag enclosed in a richly-moulded border; the other a man on a horse with a knotted tail, moving to the right, and riding with a very short ..."

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