Dictionary entry

Caballine

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cab″al‐line (kăb″al‐līn), a. [L. caballinus, fr. caballus a nag. Cf. Cavalier.] Of or pertaining to a horse. — n. Caballine aloes.

Caballine aloes, an inferior and impure kind of aloes formerly used in veterinary practice; — called also horse aloes. — Caballine spring, the fountain of Hippocrene, on Mount Helicon; — fabled to have been formed by a stroke from the foot of the winged horse Pegasus.