2. Adjective. Similar to that of a horse; as, a horselike head ¹
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Definition of Horselike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horselike
Literary usage of Horselike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1897)
"Here and there in the porphyritic granite masses of rock very similar to the main
body of the schist occur in a horselike relation, although nowhere could ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... were horselike. In the Miocene and Pliocene two very distinct families existed
within this order — the ..."
3. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Reverse the cross and the result is a hinny, more horselike in contour and
appearance, but with the smaller stature of the ass. ..."
4. Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature by Dept. of Modern Languages, Harvard University (1903)
"In this account and that in column I the animals are described as " horselike."
Their actions, however, are not those of horses, and probably this adjective ..."
5. Pre-Raphaelite and Other Poets: Lectures by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"... horselike now he raced, Riderless, in ghost across a ground Flint of breast,
blank-faced, Past the fleshly bound. Still the King listened in his ..."
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