subs. phr. (common).—A white-crested dancing wave.

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  1849.  C. KINGSLEY, His Letters and Memories of His Life, 10 Aug., i. 168. The bay is now curling and writhing in WHITE HORSES under a smoking south-wester, which promises a blessing, as it will drive the mackerel off the Welsh shore.

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  1849.  ARNOLD, The Forsaken Merman.

        Now the wild WHITE HORSES play,
Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
    Children, dear, let us away,
      This way, this way.

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  TO BE WHITE-HORSED IN, verb. phr. (tailors’).—To obtain a berth through influence.

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