Pronunciation Noun
horse (plural horses)
- Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
- A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗, page 16 ↗:
- Athelstan Arundel walked home […] , foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
- (zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass.
- These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
- (military, sometimes, uncountable) Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
- All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again.
- (chess, informal) The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- Now just remind me how the horse moves again?
- (slang) A large and sturdy person.
- Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
- (historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- Synonyms: Morgan's mule, Spanish donkey
- A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- Equipment with legs.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- a clothes horse; a sawhorse
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- (nautical) Type of equipment.
- (mining) 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.
- (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
- 1962, Cape Fear, 00:15:20
- Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar
- 1962, Cape Fear, 00:15:20
- (US) 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 H.O.R.S.E. (see pedialite Variations of basketball#H-O-R-S-E).
- (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
- (dated, slang, among students) horseplay; tomfoolery
- (animal) horsie, nag, steed, prad
- (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse
- (chess piece) knight
- (illegitimate study aid) dobbin, pony, trot
- French: (♂♀) cheval, (♂) étalon, (♀) jument, (♂ offspring) poulain, (♀ offspring) pouliche
- German: (♂♀) Pferd, (♂♀) Ross, (old spelling) Roß, (♂♀ regional; inferior) Gaul, (♂) Hengst, Pferdehengst, (♀) Stute, Pferdestute, (♂ offspring) Hengstfohlen, (♂ offspring) Hengstfüllen, (♀ offspring) Stutenfohlen, Stutfohlen, (♀ offspring) Stutenfüllen, Stutfüllen, (♂♀ regional) Rössel, (♂♀ South German) Rössl, (♂♀ South German) Rössle
- Italian: cavallo
- Portuguese: cavalo, égua
- Russian: ло́шадь
- Spanish: caballo, yegua
- French: cavalerie
- German: Kavallerie, Reiterei
- Portuguese: cavalaria
- Spanish: caballería
- French: cheval d'arçons
- German: Pferd, Pauschenpferd, Seitpferd
- Portuguese: cavalo
- Russian: конь
- Spanish: potro
- Spanish: caballete
horse (horses, present participle horsing; past and past participle horsed)
- (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
- 1989, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, 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.
- "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
- 1943, Ted W. Lawson and Bob Consodine, 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.
- 1989, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
- (transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- being better horsed, outrode me
- (obsolete) To get on horseback.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, "Cupid's Arrows":
- He horsed himself well.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, "Cupid's Arrows":
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Cymbeline, II. i. 203:
- Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Cymbeline, II. i. 203:
- (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
- To take or carry on the back.
- 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.
- (transitive, dated) To urge at work tyrannically.
- (intransitive, dated) To charge for work before it is finished.
horse (uncountable)
- (uncountable, slang) Heroin drug.
- Alright, mate, got any horse?
HORSE
Noun
horse (uncountable)
- A poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand.
horse (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of horse (variant of basketball)
Horse
Proper noun
- The seventh of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
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