d. 1819. Wolcot, Wks. In woman angel sweetness let me see No galloping horse-godmother for me.
1838. Selby, Jacques Strop, iii., 1. What a couple of horse-godmothers.
1846–8. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ii., ch. 4. How do, my dear? Come to see the old man, hay? Gad—you’ve a pretty face, too. You ain’t like that old horse-godmother, your mother.
Horse-latitudes, subs. (nautical).—A space in the Atlantic, north of the trade-winds, where the winds are baffling. [[360]]
1891. W. C. Russell, Ocean Tragedy, p. 137. The winds even north of the rains and horse-latitudes were in a sense to be reckoned on.
Horse-laugh, subs. (colloquial).—A loud, noisy laugh; a guffaw.
1738. Pope, Ep. to Satires, i., 38. A horselaugh, if you please, at honesty.
Horse-leech, subs. (colloquial).—1. An extortioner; a miser.
2. (venery).—Anything insatiable. Also a whore.
1597. Hall, Satires, iv., 5. An horse-leech, barren wench, or gaping grave.