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Definition of 'Horse'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) horse
a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous mammal, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in numerous varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads and for riding.

2.  horse
a fully mature male animal of this type; stallion.

3.  horse
something on which a person rides, sits, or exercises, as if astride the back of such an animal:
rocking horse.

4.  horse
soldiers serving on horseback; cavalry:
a thousand horse.

5.  horse
Usu.,

6.  horse
Informal. a knight in chess.

7.  horse
Slang. an illicit aid to schoolwork, esp. a literal translation of a foreign-language text; pony; crib.

8.  horse
a mass of rock enclosed within a lode or vein of ore.

9.  horse
Slang.

10. (v.t.) horse
to provide with a horse or horses.

11.  horse
to set on horseback.

12.  horse
to move with great physical effort or force.

13.  horse
Archaic. to place (someone) on a person's back, in order to be flogged.

14. (v.i.) horse
to mount or go on a horse.

15.  horse
(of a mare) to be in heat.

16.  horse
Informal. to fool around; indulge in horseplay.

17. (adj.) horse
of or for a horse or horses.

18.  horse
drawn or powered by a horse or horses.

19.  horse
mounted or serving on horses:
horse troops.

20.  horse
unusually large.

21.  horse
from the horse's mouth, from the original or a trustworthy source.

22.  horse
Informal. to be patient.

23.  horse
look a gift horse in the mouth, to be critical of a gift.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME, OE hors, c. OS hros, hers, OHG (h)ros, ON hross)

Definition of 'Horse'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) horse, Equus caballus
solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

2. (noun) horse, gymnastic horse
a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

3. (noun) cavalry, horse cavalry, horse
troops trained to fight on horseback
"500 horse led the attack"

4. (noun) sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck
a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

5. (verb) knight, horse
a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

6. (verb) horse
provide with a horse or horses

Definition of 'Horse'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) horse
a large animal with hooves, ridden by humans
to ride a horse

Definition of 'Horse'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Horse
a breastband for a leadsman

2. (adj) Horse
an iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon

3. (adj) Horse
a jackstay

4. (noun) Horse
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

5. (noun) Horse
the male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male

6. (noun) Horse
mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot

7. (noun) Horse
a frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc

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

9. (noun) Horse
anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby

10. (noun) Horse
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

11. (noun) Horse
see Footrope, a

12. (verb) Horse
to provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse

13. (verb) Horse
to sit astride of; to bestride

14. (verb) Horse
to cover, as a mare; -- said of the male

15. (verb) Horse
to take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer

16. (verb) Horse
to place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment

17. (verb) Horse
to get on horseback

Translation of 'Horse'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a large four-footed animal which is used to pull carts etc or to carry people etc.
Afrikaans: perd	Arabic: فَرَس، حِصان	Bulgarian: кон
Brazilian: cavalo	Czech: kůň	German: das Pferd
Danish: hest	Greek: άλογο	Spanish: caballo
Estonian: hobune	Farsi: اسب	Finnish: hevonen
French: cheval	Hebrew: סוּס	Hindi: घोड़ा
Croatian: konj	Hungarian: ló	Indonesian: kuda
Icelandic: hestur	Italian: cavallo	Japanese: 馬
Korean: 말	Lithuanian: arklys	Latvian: zirgs
Malay: kuda	Dutch: paard	Norwegian: hest, gamp, hingst
Polish: koń	Persian: اسب	Pashto: آس
Portuguese: cavalo	Romanian: cal	Russian: лошадь
Slovak: kôň	Slovenian: konj	Serbian: konj
Swedish: häst	Thai: ม้า	Turkish: at
Taiwanese: 馬	Ukrainian: кінь, коняка	Urdu: گھوڑا
Vietnamese: con ngựa	Chinese: 马
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