Horse: English to English |
Horse (a.) A breastband for a leadsman. |
Horse (a.) A jackstay. |
Horse (a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon. |
Horse (n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. |
Horse (n.) A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc. |
Horse (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 an |
Horse (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. |
Horse (n.) Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby. |
Horse (n.) Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot. |
Horse (n.) See Footrope, a. |
Horse (n.) The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male. |
Horse (v. i.) To get on horseback. |
Horse (v. t.) To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male. |
Horse (v. t.) To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment. |
Horse (v. t.) To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse. |
Horse (v. t.) To sit astride of; to bestride. |
Horse (v. t.) To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer. |