SICK AS A HORSE

Domain	Definition
Literature	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.
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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.
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