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Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
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horsehead
Word definitions for horsehead in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scoter \Sco"ter\, n. [Cf. Prov. E. scote to plow up.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of northern sea ducks of the genus Oidemia . Note: The European scoters are Oidemia nigra , called also black duck , black diver , surf duck ; and the velvet, or ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A pump for pumping oil from an oil well. 2 A steel girder supporting the roof of a mine tunnel.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies [syn: moonfish , Atlantic moonfish , horsefish , horse-head , dollarfish , Selene setapinnis ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Horsehead can refer to: The head of a horse Horsehead (band) , an Australian rock band Horsehead Corporation , an American corporation producing zinc products Horsehead Nebula , an dark nebula in the constellation of Orion A pumpjack , or horsehead, part ...
Usage examples of horsehead.
The familiar Horsehead accents from the port are repeating, sounding a trifle puzzled and peremptory.
Slackening the reins again, he charged full tilt out of the ravine toward Horsehead Point.
At the edge of Horsehead Point, Tom and Bud threw themselves from their ponies.
The ship soared off, leaving a band of raging, frustrated Brungarians on Horsehead Point.
Solly how she felt, looking at the star-cradles glowing in their windows, at the Horsehead, at the rings.
The overhead screen depicted the Alnitak region, the vast roiling clouds, the dark mass of the Horsehead, the brilliant nebulosity NGC2024, the giant star itself, and the sweeping rings of the Jovian world.
I pray to Lady Horsehead and King-of-Oxen and the Transcendent Pig and Prince Millet and Hun-po Chao, patron deity of the armpits!
It was a medium ship of five thousand tons, designed for service in the Horsehead Nebula region.
Milky Way also is replete with imagined likenesses - for example, the Horsehead, Eskimo, Owl, Homunculus, Tarantula and North American Nebulae, all irregular clouds of gas and dust, illuminated by bright stars and each on a scale that dwarfs our solar system.
Girls carried straw baskets up the hill to the monastery, and the bonzes lined them with yellow paper upon which they had drawn pictures of Lady Horsehead, and the abbot blessed the baskets and burned incense to the patron of sericulture.
Over their mail shirts they wore white linen tabards with a black horsehead on the right breast.
They wore brass helmets and tabards bearing the Sandrakkan horsehead quartered with the wavy symbol of Erdin.
We found this beautiful, beautiful mounted horsehead with the silver mane and the lovely blue glass eyes that follow us.
The family stayed independent, selling information when our funds ran low, reinvesting in data from freelance expeditions to the Horsehead and Lesser Magellan.
On the run, he circled, and saw the garnet-coloured horse bearing down on him, seeming big as a ship with a strange horsehead prow.