What is "salt horse"

Salt \Salt\, a. [Compar. Salter; superl. Saltest.] [AS. sealt, salt. See Salt, n.]

1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water. ``Salt tears.''
   --Chaucer.

2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

3. Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.

   I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
   --Shak.

4. Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful. --Shak. Salt acid (Chem.), hydrochloric acid. Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory. --Knight. Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efflorescences. [Western U.S.] --Bartlett. Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to Leblanc's process. Salt fish.

   1. Salted fish, especially cod, haddock, and similar fishes that have been salted and dried for food.

   2. A marine fish. Salt garden, an arrangement for the natural evaporation of sea water for the production of salt, employing large shallow basins excavated near the seashore. Salt gauge, an instrument used to test the strength of brine; a salimeter. Salt horse, salted beef. [Slang] Salt junk, hard salt beef for use at sea. [Slang] Salt lick. See Lick, n. Salt marsh, grass land subject to the overflow of salt water. Salt-marsh caterpillar (Zo["o]l.), an American bombycid moth ( Spilosoma acr[ae]a which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also woolly bear. See Illust. under Moth, Pupa, and Woolly bear, under Woolly. Salt-marsh fleabane (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb ( Pluchea camphorata) with rayless purplish heads, growing in salt marshes. Salt-marsh hen (Zo["o]l.), the clapper rail. See under Rail. Salt-marsh terrapin (Zo["o]l.), the diamond-back. Salt mine, a mine where rock salt is obtained. Salt pan.

      1. A large pan used for making salt by evaporation; also, a shallow basin in the ground where salt water is evaporated by the heat of the sun.

      2. pl. Salt works.

         Salt pit, a pit where salt is obtained or made.

         Salt rising, a kind of yeast in which common salt is a principal ingredient. [U.S.]

         Salt raker, one who collects salt in natural salt ponds, or inclosures from the sea.

         Salt sedative (Chem.), boracic acid. [Obs.]

         Salt spring, a spring of salt water.

         Salt tree (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ( Halimodendron argenteum) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian region and in Siberia.

         Salt water, water impregnated with salt, as that of the ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also, tears.

         Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see; And yet salt water blinds them not so much But they can see a sort of traitors here.
         --Shak.

         Salt-water sailor, an ocean mariner.

         Salt-water tailor. (Zo["o]l.) See Bluefish.

Horse \Horse\ (h[^o]rs), n. [AS. hors; akin to OS. hros, D. & OHG. ros, G. ross, Icel. hross; and perh. to L. currere to run, E. course, current Cf. Walrus.]

1. (Zo["o]l.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse ( Equus caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.

   Note: Many varieties, differing in form, size, color, gait, speed, etc., are known, but all are believed to have been derived from the same original species. It is supposed to have been a native of the plains of Central Asia, but the wild species from which it was derived is not certainly known. The feral horses of America are domestic horses that have run wild; and it is probably true that most of those of Asia have a similar origin. Some of the true wild Asiatic horses do, however, approach the domestic horse in several characteristics. Several species of fossil ( Equus) are known from the later Tertiary formations of Europe and America. The fossil species of other genera of the family Equid[ae] are also often called horses, in general sense.

2. The male of the genus Equus, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

3. Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot.

   The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot.
   --Bacon.

4. A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

5. A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

6. Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

7. (Mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.

8. (Naut.)

   1. See Footrope, a.

   2. A breastband for a leadsman.

   3. An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.

   4. A jackstay.
      --W. C. Russell.
      --Totten.

9. (Student Slang)

   1. A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; -- called also trot, pony, Dobbin.

   2. Horseplay; tomfoolery.

10. heroin. [slang]

11. horsepower. [Colloq. contraction] Note: Horse is much used adjectively and in composition to signify of, or having to do with, a horse or horses, like a horse, etc.; as, horse collar, horse dealer or horse?dealer, horsehoe, horse jockey; and hence, often in the sense of strong, loud, coarse, etc.; as, horselaugh, horse nettle or horse-nettle, horseplay, horse ant, etc. Black horse, Blood horse, etc. See under Black, etc. Horse aloes, caballine aloes. Horse ant (Zo["o]l.), a large ant ( Formica rufa); -- called also horse emmet. Horse artillery, that portion of the artillery in which the cannoneers are mounted, and which usually serves with the cavalry; flying artillery. Horse balm (Bot.), a strong-scented labiate plant ( Collinsonia Canadensis), having large leaves and yellowish flowers. Horse bean (Bot.), a variety of the English or Windsor bean ( Faba vulgaris), grown for feeding horses. Horse boat, a boat for conveying horses and cattle, or a boat propelled by horses. Horse bot. (Zo["o]l.) See Botfly, and Bots. Horse box, a railroad car for transporting valuable horses, as hunters. [Eng.] Horse breaker or Horse trainer, one employed in subduing or training horses for use. Horse car.

    1. A railroad car drawn by horses. See under Car.

    2. A car fitted for transporting horses. Horse cassia (Bot.), a leguminous plant ( Cassia Javanica), bearing long pods, which contain a black, catharic pulp, much used in the East Indies as a horse medicine. Horse cloth, a cloth to cover a horse. Horse conch (Zo["o]l.), a large, spiral, marine shell of the genus Triton. See Triton. Horse courser.

       1. One that runs horses, or keeps horses for racing.
          --Johnson.

       2. A dealer in horses. [Obs.] --Wiseman. Horse crab (Zo["o]l.), the Limulus; -- called also horsefoot, horsehoe crab, and king crab. Horse crevall['e] (Zo["o]l.), the cavally. Horse emmet (Zo["o]l.), the horse ant. Horse finch (Zo["o]l.), the chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.] Horse gentian (Bot.), fever root. Horse iron (Naut.), a large calking iron. Horse latitudes, a space in the North Atlantic famous for calms and baffling winds, being between the westerly winds of higher latitudes and the trade winds. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. Horse mackrel. (Zo["o]l.)

          1. The common tunny ( Orcynus thunnus), found on the Atlantic coast of Europe and America, and in the Mediterranean.

          2. The bluefish ( Pomatomus saltatrix).

    3. The scad.

    4. The name is locally applied to various other fishes, as the California hake, the black candlefish, the jurel, the bluefish, etc. Horse marine (Naut.), an awkward, lubbery person; one of a mythical body of marine cavalry. [Slang] Horse mussel (Zo["o]l.), a large, marine mussel ( Modiola modiolus), found on the northern shores of Europe and America. Horse nettle (Bot.), a coarse, prickly, American herb, the Solanum Carolinense. Horse parsley. (Bot.) See Alexanders. Horse purslain (Bot.), a coarse fleshy weed of tropical America ( Trianthema monogymnum). Horse race, a race by horses; a match of horses in running or trotting. Horse racing, the practice of racing with horses. Horse railroad, a railroad on which the cars are drawn by horses; -- in England, and sometimes in the United States, called a tramway. Horse run (Civil Engin.), a device for drawing loaded wheelbarrows up an inclined plane by horse power. Horse sense, strong common sense. [Colloq. U.S.] Horse soldier, a cavalryman. Horse sponge (Zo["o]l.), a large, coarse, commercial sponge ( Spongia equina). Horse stinger (Zo["o]l.), a large dragon fly. [Prov. Eng.] Horse sugar (Bot.), a shrub of the southern part of the United States ( Symplocos tinctoria), whose leaves are sweet, and good for fodder. Horse tick (Zo["o]l.), a winged, dipterous insect ( Hippobosca equina), which troubles horses by biting them, and sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, horse louse, and forest fly. Horse vetch (Bot.), a plant of the genus Hippocrepis ( Hippocrepis comosa), cultivated for the beauty of its flowers; -- called also horsehoe vetch, from the peculiar shape of its pods. Iron horse, a locomotive. [Colloq.] Salt horse, the sailor's name for salt beef. To look a gift horse in the mouth, to examine the mouth of a horse which has been received as a gift, in order to ascertain his age; -- hence, to accept favors in a critical and thankless spirit. --Lowell. To take horse.

       1. To set out on horseback.
          --Macaulay.

       2. To be covered, as a mare.

       3. See definition 7 (above).

n. (context US obsolete sailor's slang English) salt beef