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Definition of Man-on-a-horse
1. Noun. An edible agaric with yellow gills and a viscid yellow cap that has a brownish center.
Generic synonyms: Agaric
Group relationships: Genus Tricholoma, Tricholoma
Lexicographical Neighbors of Man-on-a-horse
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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