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SICK AS A HORSE

Specialty Definition: SICK AS A HORSE

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Sick as a Horse Nausea unrelieved by vomiting. A horse is unable to vomit, because its diaphragm is not a complete partition in the abdomen, perforated only by the gullet, and against which the stomach can be compressed by the abdominal muscles, as is the case in man. Hence the nausea of a horse is more lasting and more violent. (See Notes and Queries, C.S. xii., August 15th, 1885, p. 134.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

SICK AS A HORSE. Horses are said to be extremely sick at their stomachs, from being unable to relieve themselves by vomiting. Bracken, indeed, in his Farriery, gives an instance of that evacuation being procured, but by a means which he says would make th. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SICK AS A HORSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-k-o-r-s-s-s"

-3 letters: archaises.

-4 letters: archaise, cashiers, charases, harasses, hassocks, karosses, kirsches, orchises, rachises, rickshas, scariose, shackoes, shickers, shicksas, shockers.

-5 letters: arkoses, arkosic, ascaris, ascesis, askesis, caesars, cahiers, cashier, cassias, chaises, chakras, chaoses, charkas, chasers, chasses, chassis, chokers, chokier, choreas, coheirs, coshers, crashes, crosses, eschars, hackers, hackies, hassock, heroics, hissers, hockers, hosiers, kaisers, kashers, kissers, koshers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SICK AS A HORSE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 49 43 4B      41 53      41      48 4F 52 53 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01000001 01010011 00100000 01000001 00100000 01001000 01001111 01010010 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#32 &#65 &#83 &#32 &#65 &#32 &#72 &#79 &#82 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 0043 004B      0041 0053      0041      0048 004F 0052 0053 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

534337452355323524249525339

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