mal del viajero

Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A supporter of Trotskyism.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.

Definition: Equipment with legs.

Definition: Type of equipment.

Definition: A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

Definition: The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

Definition: An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).

Definition: (among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Definition: (among students) horseplay; tomfoolery

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Heroin (drug).

Example: Alright, mate, got any horse?

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: An ugly old woman, a hag.

Definition: (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).

Definition: A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.

Definition: A brisk journey or progression.

Example: In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.

Definition: A toddler.

Definition: A young animal.

Definition: A moderately rapid dance.

Definition: A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.

Definition: (with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune.

Example: He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.

Definition: (as 'the trots') Diarrhoea.

Example: He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.

Example: I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.

Definition: (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.

Definition: To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Diarrhoea/diarrhea.

Example: I've had the trots all morning and haven't been able to go out.

Definition: (with "the") A trotting race meet; harness racing.