horseplay

[Eng. horse, and play.] 1. Lit.: The play with each other of horses, especially when young, which is rude and boisterous. 2. Fig .: Coarse, rough play. "He is too much given to horseplay in his raillery." Min. & Mining : A name given to Bornite (q.v.). Dryden: Dufresnoy. horse-fly, s . [Eng. horse, and fly .] 2. Hippobosca equina , more commonly called the Forest-fly (q. v.), also the genus Hippobosca. 3. The genus Tabanus. horse'-gin, s . [HORSE-WHIM.] Horse-guards ( u silent), s. [Eng. horse, and guards.] on bot he parties, for they wer all horsed."-Berners: Froi art; Cronycle, vol. i., ch. cexi. (2) To cover; said of the male. 2. Figuratively : (1) To carry on the back, as a horse. "The spirit horsed him, like a sack." Butler: Hudibras , pt. iii., c. i. (2) To place on a horse, for the purpose of punishment. [HORSE, S. , A. I. 2. (3).] (3) To place on the back of another for the purpose of being flogged. (4) To bestride; to sit on, as on a horse. "Windows are smothered, and ridges horsed." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, ii. 1. II. Shipwright .: To drive the oakum into the seams between the planking of ships. [HORSING IRON.] B. Reflex.: Τo furnish one's self with a horse or horses. in the morn Greene: Friar Bacon. "Therefore, my wags, we'll horse us To post to Oxford." C. Intransitive : 1. To get on horseback; to mount a horse. 2. To work a dead horse. Doing work that has already been paid for.