HORSE is also a cant name introduced into the management of lotteries, for the chance or benefit of a ticket or number for one or more days, upon condition, if it be drawn a prize within the time covenanted for, of returning to the seller an undrawn ticket.—To determine the value of a horse; multiply the amount of the prizes in the lottery by the time the horse is hired for; and from the product subtract the amount of the number of prizes by the value of an undrawn ticket into the time of the horse: the remainder being divided by the number of tickets into the whole time of drawing, the quotient is the value of the horse. See LOTTERY.
Horse-Bread. See BREAD.
Horse-Dung, in Gardening, is of great use in making hot beds, for the raising all sorts of early crops as saladings, cucumbers, melons, asparagus, &c. for which purposes no other kind of dung will do so well. Horse-dung ferments the strongest; and if mixed with litter and sea-coal ashes in a due proportion, will continue its heat much longer than any other sort of dung whatsoever; and afterward, when rotted, becomes an excellent manure for most sorts of land: more especially for such as are of a cold nature. For stiff clayey land, horse-dung mixed with sea-coal ashes, and the cleansing of streets, will cause the parts to separate much sooner than any other compost: so that where it can be obtained in plenty, it is always to be recommended for such lands. See DUNG.
Animated Horse-Hairs, a term used to express a sort of long and slender water-worm, of a blackish colour, and so much resembling a horse-hair, that it is generally by the vulgar supposed to be the hair fallen from a horse's mane into the water as he drinks, and there animated by some strange power. Dr Lister has at large confuted this absurd opinion, in the Philosophical Transactions.
Horse-Hair Worms. See AMPHISEBENA.
Horse-Hoeing Husbandry. See AGRICULTURE, No 489.