Colt

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A young, foolish fellow.

II. Colt ·vt To Befool.

III. Colt ·vt To Horse; to get with young.

IV. Colt ·vi To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

V. Colt ·noun A short knotted rope formerly used as an instrument of punishment in the navy.

VI. Colt ·noun The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals;

— sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. ·cf. Foal.

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