Colt

COLT . The young of camels and asses are so called. Gen 32:15; Gen 49:11; Jud 10:4; Job 11:12; Matt 21:2, 1 Chr 6:5, 1 Kgs 15:7, and elsewhere.

COLT . The young of camels and asses are so called. Gen 32:15; Gen 49:11; Jud 10:4; Job 11:12; Matt 21:2, 1 Chr 6:5, 1 Kgs 15:7, and elsewhere.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.

2. A young, foolish fellow. Shak.

3. A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Colt's tooth, an imperfect or superfluous tooth in young horses. -- To cast one's colt's tooth, to cease from youthful wantonness. "Your colt's tooth is not cast yet." Shak. -- To have a colt's tooth, to be wanton. Chaucer.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. [Obs.] They shook off their bridles and began to colt. Spenser.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To horse; to get with young. Shak.

2. To befool. [Obs.] Shak.