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Definition of Horse of the wood
1. Noun. Large black Old World grouse.
Generic synonyms: Grouse
Group relationships: Genus Tetrao, Tetrao
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horse Of The Wood
Literary usage of Horse of the wood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... signifies " the horse of the wood ; this species being, in comparison of others
of the genus, pre-eminently large. " He subjoins, in a Note ; " For the ..."
2. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1901)
"The name means, in their tongue, The Horse of the Wood», for the call is a horse's
neigh. The bird feeds only on the buds and tender leaves of the pine. ..."
3. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1881)
"... the horse of the wood.' We wholly agree with this view, setting the general
opinion from Boetius, 1526, to the present day, as being more likely to be ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1881)
"... and Latin caballus), ' the horse of the wood.' We wholly agree with this view,
setting the general opinion from Boetius, 1526, to the present day, ..."
5. The Co-operative Commonwealth: An Exposition of Modern Socialism by Laurence Gronlund (1891)
"But when economists gravely apply that term to such acquisitions as the wheelbarrow
of the day-labourer and the wooden horse of the wood-sawyer, ..."
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