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Webster 1913 Edition
Horseshoe
Horse′shoeˊ
,Noun.
1.
A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter
U
, nailed to a horse’s hoof. 2.
Anything shaped like a horsehoe, such as a U-shaped bend in a river.
3.
(Zool.)
The Limulus or horsehoe crab.
Horsehoe head
(Med.)
, an old name for the condition of the skull in children, in which the sutures are too open, the coronal suture presenting the form of a horsehoe.
Dunglison.
– Horsehoe magnet
, an artificial magnet in the form of a horsehoe.
– Horsehoe nail
. See
– Horsenail
. Horsehoe nose
(Zool.)
, a bat of the genus
Rhinolophus
, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe.Webster 1828 Edition
Horseshoe
HORSESHOE
,Noun.