Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or suited for a horse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a horse.
- adjective an inferior and impure kind of aloes formerly used in veterinary practice; -- called also
horse aloes . - adjective the fountain of Hippocrene, on Mount Helicon; -- fabled to have been formed by a stroke from the foot of the winged horse Pegasus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or pertaining to, a
horse .
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Examples
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And in remembrance hereof there is none entered into the register and matricular book of the said university, or accounted capable of taking any degree therein, till he have first drunk in the caballine fountain of Croustelles, passed at
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And in remembrance hereof there is none entered into the register and matricular book of the said university, or accounted capable of taking any degree therein, till he have first drunk in the caballine fountain of Croustelles, passed at
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Now have I understood thee, quoth Panurge, my plushcod friar, my caballine and claustral ballock.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Now have I understood thee, quoth Panurge, my plushcod friar, my caballine and claustral ballock.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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-- (Aloe perlivata.) Aloes is distinguished into three kinds or species -- as caballine, socottorine and hepatic.
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Finally, very recent work (Orlando et al. 2009) that examined the evolutionary history of a variety of non-caballine equids across four continents, found evidence for taxonomic
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The author states, "The presence of a morphologically variable caballine species widely distributed both north and south of the North American ice sheets raises the tantalizing possibility that, in spite of many taxa named on morphological grounds, most or even all North American caballines were members of the same species."
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Despite a great deal of variability in the size of the Pleistocene equids from differing locations (mostly ecomorphotypes), the DNA evidence strongly suggests that all of the large and small caballine samples belonged to the same species.
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And in remembrance hereof there is none entered into the register and matricular book of the said university, or accounted capable of taking any degree therein, till he have first drunk in the caballine fountain of Croustelles, passed at Passelourdin, and got up upon the lifted stone.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Now have I understood thee, quoth Panurge, my plushcod friar, my caballine and claustral ballock.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
jinglebelljosie commented on the word caballine
adj. equine; relating to horses
October 28, 2008