Horse

hors, n. a well-known quadruped: ( collectively ) cavalry: that by which something is supported, as 'clothes-horse,' .: a wooden frame on which soldiers were formerly made to ride as a punishment—also Timber-mare : a boy's crib, a translation.— v.t. to mount on a horse: to provide with a horse: to sit astride: to carry on the back: to urge at work tyrannically: to construe by means of a crib.— v.i. to get on horseback: to charge for work before it is done.— ns. Horse′-artill′ery , field artillery with comparatively light guns and the gunners mounted; Horse′back , the back of a horse; Horse′-bean , a large bean given to horses; Horse′-block , a block or stage by which to mount or dismount from a horse; Horse′-boat , a boat for carrying horses, or one towed by a horse; Horse′-box , a railway car for transporting horses in, or a stall on shipboard; Horse′-boy , a stable-boy; Horse′-break′er , Horse′-tam′er , one whose busine is to break or tame horses, or to teach them to draw or carry ( Pretty horse-breaker , a woman with little virtue to lose); Horse′-car , a car drawn by horses; Horse′-chest′nut , a large variety of chestnut, prob. so called from its coarsene contrasted with the edible chestnut: the tree that produces it (see Chestnut ); Horse′-cloth , a cloth for covering a horse; Horse′-coup′er ( Scot. ), a horse-dealer; Horse′-deal′er , one who deals in horses; Horse′-doc′tor , a veterinary surgeon; Horse′-drench , a dose of physic for a horse.— adj. Horse′-faced , having a long face.— ns. Horse′-flesh , the flesh of a horse: horses collectively: a Bahama mahogany.— adj. of reddish-bronze colour.— ns. Horse′-fly , a large fly that stings horses; Horse′-foot , the colt's foot; Horse′-god′mother , a fat clumsy woman.— n.pl. Horse′-guards , horse-soldiers employed as guards: the 3d heavy cavalry regiment of the British army, forming part of the household troops: the War Office, or public office in White hall, London, appropriated to the departments of the commander-in-chief of the British army.— ns. Horse′-hair , the hair of horses: haircloth; Horse′-hoe , a hoe drawn by horses; Horse′-knack′er , one who buys worn-out horses for slaughtering; Horse′-lat′itudes , a part of the North Atlantic Ocean noted for long calms, so called from the frequent nece ity of throwing part of a cargo of horses overboard from want of water when becalmed; Horse′-laugh , a harsh, boisterous laugh; Horse′-leech , a large species of leech, so named from its fastening on horses when wading in the water: a bloodsucker (Prov. xxx. 15); Horse′-litt′er , a litter or bed borne between two horses; Horse′-mack′erel , one of various fishes—the scad (q.v.), .; Horse′man , a rider on horseback: a mounted soldier; Horse′manship , the art of riding, and of training and managing horses; Horse′-ma′rine , a person quite out of his element: an imaginary being for whom wild flights of imagination had best be reserved ('Tell it to the horse-marines'); Horse-mill , a mill turned by horses; Horse′-mill′iner , one who provides the trappings for horses; Horse′-mint , a common European wild-mint: the American Monarda punctata — Sweet horse-mint , the common dittany; Horse′-nail , a nail for fastening a horse-shoe to the hoof; Horse′-pis′tol , a large pistol carried in a holster; Horse′-play , rough, boisterous play; Horse′-pond , a pond for watering horses at; Horse′-pow′er , the power a horse can exert, or its equivalent=that required to raise 33,000 lb. avoirdupois one foot per minute: a standard for estimating the power of steam-engines; Horse′-race , a race by horses; Horse′-rac′ing , the practice of racing or running horses in matches; Horse′-rad′ish , a plant with a pungent root, used in medicine and as a condiment; Horse′-rake , a rake drawn by horses; Horse′-rid′ing , a circus; Horse′-sense , plain robust sense; Horse′-shoe , a shoe for horses, consisting of a curved piece of iron.— adj. shaped like a horse-shoe.— ns. Horse′-sol′dier , a cavalry soldier; Horse′-tail , a genus of leafle plants with hollow rush-like stems, so called from their likene to a horse's tail; Horse′-train′er , one who trains horses for racing, .; Horse′-way , a road by which a horse may pa ; Horse′-whip , a whip for driving horses.— v.t. to strike with a horse-whip: to lash.— ns. Horse′woman , a woman who rides on horseback; Hors′ine ; Hors′ing , birching a schoolboy mounted on another's back.— adj. Hors′y , of or pertaining to horses: devoted to horse racing or breeding.— A dark horse (see Dark ); Flog a dead horse , to try to work up excitement about a threadbare subject; Get on , Mount , the high horse , to a ume consequential airs; Put the cart before the horse (see Cart ); Ride the wooden horse (see above); Take horse , to mount on horseback. [A.S. hors ; Ice. hor , Old High Ger. hros (Ger. ro ).]