Horse

[hɔːs] or [hɔrs]

Definition

(noun.) solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times.

(noun.) a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs.

(verb.) provide with a horse or horses.

Editor: Wilma--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.

(n.) The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

(n.) Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot.

(n.) A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

(n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

(n.) Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

(n.) 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.

(n.) See Footrope, a.

(a.) A breastband for a leadsman.

(a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.

(a.) A jackstay.

(v. t.) To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.

(v. t.) To sit astride of; to bestride.

(v. t.) To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male.

(v. t.) To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.

(v. t.) To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

(v. i.) To get on horseback.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Steed, CHARGER, MARE, FILLY, COLT, PONY, SHELTIE (or SHELTY), PALFREY, NAG, BARB, COB, PAD, ROADSTER, TIT, PUNCH.[2]. Cavalry, horsemen.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Steed, charger, courser, {[Rozinante]?}, nag, barb

Typist: Malcolm

Definition

n. a well-known quadruped: (collectively) cavalry: that by which something is supported as 'clothes-horse ' &c.: a wooden frame on which soldiers were formerly made to ride as a punishment—also Timber-mare: a boy's crib a translation.—v.t. to mount on a horse: to provide with a horse: to sit astride: to carry on the back: to urge at work tyrannically: to construe by means of a crib.—v.i. to get on horseback: to charge for work before it is done.—ns. Horse′-artill′ery field artillery with comparatively light guns and the gunners mounted; Horse′back the back of a horse; Horse′-bean a large bean given to horses; Horse′-block a block or stage by which to mount or dismount from a horse; Horse′-boat a boat for carrying horses or one towed by a horse; Horse′-box a railway car for transporting horses in or a stall on shipboard; Horse′-boy a stable-boy; Horse′-break′er Horse′-tam′er one whose business is to break or tame horses or to teach them to draw or carry (Pretty horse-breaker a woman with little virtue to lose); Horse′-car a car drawn by horses; Horse′-chest′nut a large variety of chestnut prob. so called from its coarseness contrasted with the edible chestnut: the tree that produces it (see Chestnut); Horse′-cloth a cloth for covering a horse; Horse′-coup′er (Scot.) a horse-dealer; Horse′-deal′er one who deals in horses; Horse′-doc′tor a veterinary surgeon; Horse′-drench a dose of physic for a horse.—adj. Horse′-faced having a long face.—ns. Horse′-flesh the flesh of a horse: horses collectively: a Bahama mahogany.—adj. of reddish-bronze colour.—ns. Horse′-fly a large fly that stings horses; Horse′-foot the colt's foot; Horse′-god′mother a fat clumsy woman.—n.pl. Horse′-guards horse-soldiers employed as guards: the 3d heavy cavalry regiment of the British army forming part of the household troops: the War Office or public office in Whitehall London appropriated to the departments of the commander-in-chief of the British army.—ns. Horse′-hair the hair of horses: haircloth; Horse′-hoe a hoe drawn by horses; Horse′-knack′er one who buys worn-out horses for slaughtering; Horse′-lat′itudes a part of the North Atlantic Ocean noted for long calms so called from the frequent necessity of throwing part of a cargo of horses overboard from want of water when becalmed; Horse′-laugh a harsh boisterous laugh; Horse′-leech a large species of leech so named from its fastening on horses when wading in the water: a bloodsucker (Prov. xxx. 15); Horse′-litt′er a litter or bed borne between two horses; Horse′-mack′erel one of various fishes—the scad (q.v.) &c.; Horse′man a rider on horseback: a mounted soldier; Horse′manship the art of riding and of training and managing horses; Horse′-ma′rine a person quite out of his element: an imaginary being for whom wild flights of imagination had best be reserved ('Tell it to the horse-marines'); Horse-mill a mill turned by horses; Horse′-mill′iner one who provides the trappings for horses; Horse′-mint a common European wild-mint: the American Monarda punctata—Sweet horse-mint the common dittany; Horse′-nail a nail for fastening a horse-shoe to the hoof; Horse′-pis′tol a large pistol carried in a holster; Horse′-play rough boisterous play; Horse′-pond a pond for watering horses at; Horse′-pow′er the power a horse can exert or its equivalent=that required to raise 33 000 lb. avoirdupois one foot per minute: a standard for estimating the power of steam-engines; Horse′-race a race by horses; Horse′-rac′ing the practice of racing or running horses in matches; Horse′-rad′ish a plant with a pungent root used in medicine and as a condiment; Horse′-rake a rake drawn by horses; Horse′-rid′ing a circus; Horse′-sense plain robust sense; Horse′-shoe a shoe for horses consisting of a curved piece of iron.—adj. shaped like a horse-shoe.—ns. Horse′-sol′dier a cavalry soldier; Horse′-tail a genus of leafless plants with hollow rush-like stems so called from their likeness to a horse's tail; Horse′-train′er one who trains horses for racing &c.; Horse′-way a road by which a horse may pass; Horse′-whip a whip for driving horses.—v.t. to strike with a horse-whip: to lash.—ns. Horse′woman a woman who rides on horseback; Hors′iness; Hors′ing birching a schoolboy mounted on another's back.—adj. Hors′y of or pertaining to horses: devoted to horse racing or breeding.—A dark horse (see Dark); Flog a dead horse to try to work up excitement about a threadbare subject; Get on Mount the high horse to assume consequential airs; Put the cart before the horse (see Cart); Ride the wooden horse (see above); Take horse to mount on horseback.

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