Word Meanings - HIPPOPHAGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or practice of feeding on horseflesh.

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• HORSEFLESH
  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. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• FEEDING
  1. the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening. 2. That which is eaten; food. 3. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. Feeding bottle. See under Bottle.
• FEED
  f, fr. f food; akin to C. f, OFries f, f, D. voeden, OHG. fuottan, 1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20. Unreasonable reatures feed their young. Shak. 2.
• FEEDER
  An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward. A couple of friends, his chaplain and feeder. Goldsmith. 2. One
• STALL-FEED
  To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall- feed an ox.
• OVERFEED
  To feed to excess; to surfeit.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• UNDERFEED
  To feed with too little food; to supply with an insufficient quantity of food.
• KNIFEEDGE; KNIFE-EDGE
  A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction. Knife-edge file. See Illust. of
• MISPRACTICE
  Wrong practice.
• MALEPRACTICE
  See MALPRACTICE