A dark spot on the forehead of a horse between the eyes. A white spot is called a star, and an elongated star is a blaze. (See Blaze.)
“Agrippa. He [Antony] has a cloud on his face
Enobarbus. He were the worse for that were he a horse.”
Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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