Etymology : Middle English hors, from Old English; akin to Old High German hros horse
Pronunciation : hors
Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. large four-legged mammal commonly used for transportation; type of gymnastics equipment. furnish with a horse; ride a horse; carry on one's back. Next >>.
2. A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse , which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period.
3. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below.
4. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting.
5. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base.
6. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs.
7. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.
8. The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.
9. Mounted soldiery; cavalry; used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; distinguished from foot.
10. A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.
11. A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
12. Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.
13. 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.
14. See Footrope, a.
15. A breastband for a leadsman.
16. An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.
17. A jackstay.
18. To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.
19. To sit astride of; to bestride.
20. To cover, as a mare; said of the male.
21. To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.
22. To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
23. To get on horseback.
24. A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; called also trot, pony, Dobbin.
25. Horseplay; tomfoolery. solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs provide with a horse or horses.
26. 1. A horse is a large animal which people can ride. Some horses are used for pulling ploughs and carts. A small man on a grey horse had appeared.
27. When you talk about the horses, you mean horse races in which people bet money on the horse which they think will win. He still likes to bet on the horses.
28. A vaulting horse is a tall piece of gymnastics equipment for jumping over.
29. If you hear something from the horse's mouth, you hear it from someone who knows that it is definitely true. He has got to hear it from the horse's mouth. Then he can make a judgment as to whether his policy is correct or not. see also:
clothes horse, dark horse, rocking horse, seahorse. horse around/about to play roughly horseplay. Equine species (Equus caballus) long used by humans as a means of transport and as a draft animal. Its earliest ancestor was the dawn horse (see:
Eohippus). The only living horse not descended from the domestic horse is Przewalski's horse. The horse was apparently first domesticated by nomadic peoples of Central Asia in the 3rd millennium BC. For many centuries horses were primarily used in warfare. The saddle was introduced in China in the first centuries AD. Horses were reintroduced to the New World, after wild horses had become extinct there some 10,000 years earlier, by the Spanish in the 16th century. A mature male is called a stallion or, if used for breeding, a stud; mature females are called mares. A castrated stallion is called a gelding. Young horses (foals) are also known as colts (males) and fillies (females). A horse's height is measured in 4-in. (10.2-cm) units, or hands, from the highest point of the back (withers) to the ground. Breeds are classified by size and build: draft (heavy) horses (e.g., Belgian, Percheron) are heavy-limbed and up to 20 hands high; ponies (e.g., Shetland, Iceland) are less than 14.2 hands high; and light horses (e.g., Arabian, Thoroughbred) are intermediate, rarely taller than 17 hands. American Saddle Horse Arabian horse Crazy Horse cutting horse horse racing horse chestnut family pommel horse side horse Przewalski's horse quarter horse Quarter horse racing sea horse Tennessee Walking Horse Plantation Walking Horse White Horse Vale of the.