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- Horseshoe - n. - A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.
- Horseshoe - n. - Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.
- Horseshoe - n. - The Limulus of horsehoe crab.
- Horseshoeing - n. - The act or employment of shoeing horses.
- Horseshoer - n. - One who shoes horses.
- Heat - n. - A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.
- Poecilopoda - n. pl. - Originally, an artificial group including many parasitic Entomostraca, together with the horseshoe crabs (Limuloidea).
- Armature - n. - A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force.
- Rhinolophid - n. - Any species of the genus Rhinilophus, or family Rhinolophidae, having a horseshoe-shaped nasal crest; a horseshoe bat.
- Stub - n. - A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
- Limulus - n. - The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.
- Panton - n. - A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.
- Merostomata - n. pl. - A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus.
- Horsefoot - n. - The Limulus or horseshoe crab.