Foal
[fəʊl] or [fol]
Definition
(noun.) a young horse.
(verb.) give birth to a foal; 'the mare foaled'.
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Definition
(n.) The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly.
(v.t.) To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass.
(v.i.) To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Colt.
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Definition
n. the young of a mare or of a she-ass.—v.i. and v.t. to bring forth a foal.—ns. Foal′foot colts-foot; Foal′ing bringing forth of a foal or young.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a foal, indicates new undertakings in which you will be rather fortunate.
Editor: Ronda
Examples
- I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turkoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He rode into the city upon the foal of an ass that had been borrowed by his disciples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The behaviour of the young colt and foal appeared very modest, and that of the master and mistress extremely cheerful and complaisant to their guest. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The stripes are often plainest in the foal; and sometimes quite disappear in old horses. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It has been asserted that these are plainest in the foal, and from inquiries which I have made, I believe this to be true. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Edwards, that with the English race-horse the spinal stripe is much commoner in the foal than in the full-grown animal. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Thou art no colt of a girl with cropped head and the movement of a foal still wet from its mother. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Colonel Poole has seen both gray and bay Kattywar horses striped when first foaled. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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