horse English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) .
(cognates)
Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.
Noun
( en noun)
(lb) Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.
#A hoofed mammal, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
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#(lb) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae , including the zebra or the ass.
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# Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
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# The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.
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#(lb) A large person.
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#(lb) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
(lb) Equipment with legs.
#In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.
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#A frame with legs, used to support something.
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Equipment.
#A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
#A breastband for a leadsman.
#An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
#A jackstay.
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(lb) 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.
(lb) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
*1962 , , 00:15:20
*:Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar
(lb) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or (see ).
Usage notes
* The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarse
Synonyms
* (animal) horsie, nag, steed
* (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse
* (chesspiece) knight
Hyponyms
* (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallion
Derived terms
* change horses in midstream
* cutting horse
* dark horse
* don't look a gift horse in the mouth
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* flog a dead horse / beat a dead horse
* from the horse's mouth
* get off one's high horse
* hold one's horses
* horse and carriage
* horseback
* horse-breaker
* horse-chestnut
* horse-drawn
* horse face
* horsefeathers
* horseflesh
* horsefly
* horsely
* horse latitudes
* horselaugh
* horseman
* horsemanship
* horse of a different color
* horse opera
* horse pill
* horseplay
* horsepower
* horse race
* horse racing
* horseradish
* horse sense
* horses for courses
* horseshit
* horseshoe
* horse-stinger
* horse trading
* horsewhip
* horsey, horsy, horsie
* hung like a horse
* I could eat a horse
* one-horse race
* one-horse town
* pack horse, packhorse
* plowhorse, ploughhorse
* pommel horse
* rocking horse
* saddle horse
* sawhorse
* sea horse, seahorse
* straight from the horse's mouth
* sumpter horse
* swap horses in midstream
* vaulting horse
* warhorse
* willing horse
* workhorse
* work like a horse
See also
(kinds of horse by physical attributes)
* stallion, sire, ridgeling, gelding
* mare, dame
* colt, yearling
* filly, foal
* pony
(kinds of horse by employment)
* sumpter, rowney
* palfrey
* charger, destrier
* brumby, mustang
(related terms)
* knight, cavalier, cavalry, chivalry
* equid, equine
* gee, haw, giddy-up, whoa
* hoof, mane, tail, withers
* gallop, canter, walk, trot
* neigh, whinny
* tandem, team, chariot, cart, wagon
* ungulate
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Verb
( hors)
To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
* (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
- "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.
* (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :
- I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.
To provide with a horse.
* Shakespeare
- being better horsed , outrode me
(obsolete) To get on horseback.
* 1888 , :
- He horsed himself well.
To sit astride of; to bestride.
* 1608 , , II. i. 203:
- Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
To take or carry on the back.
* S. Butler
- the keeper, horsing a deer
To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
* 1963 , Charles Harold Nichols, Many Thousand Gone
- So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.
Derived terms
* horse around
* unhorse
Etymology 2
Noun
( -)
(uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.
- Alright, mate, got any horse ?
Synonyms
* (heroin) H, smack
Statistics
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sabino Noun
( en noun)
Any of various trees:
# bald cypress,
# ahuehuete,
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A pinto horse with a white spotted pattern.
See also
* overo
* tobiano
External links
* (Bald cypress)
* (Ahuehuete)
* (Magnolia splendens)
* (Magnolia splendens)
* (Taxodium distichum)
* (Taxodium mucronatum)
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