Definition of "light-horse" [light-horse]

• Light-armed cavalry. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When he reached the scene, he found that the disturbance was owing to “3 drunken soldiers of the light-horse, carousing, firing their pistols, and uttering the most unheard-of imprecations.”"
• "The reader must then conceive this throne in all the pomp of Oriental greatness, surrounded by the foreign and Roman troops of the empire, and closed on the rear by clouds of light-horse, who shifted their places repeatedly, so as to convey an idea of their multitude, without affording the exact means of estimating it."
• "On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides."