To provide with a horse; supply horses for, as a body of cavalry, etc.
To sit astride; bestride.
To cover: said of the male.
To mount or place on or as on the back of a horse; set on horseback; hence, to take on one's own back.
To mount on another's back preparatory to flogging.
. Nautical, to “ride” hard; drive or urge at work unfairly or tyrannically: as, to horse a ship's crew.
To make out or learn by means of a translation or other extrinsic aid: as, to horse a lesson in Virgil.
To get on horseback; mount or ride on a horse.
To charge for work before it is executed.
In calking, to embed firmly in the seams of a ship, as oakum, with a horsing-iron and a mallet: often with up.
To hang (as skins) over a wooden horse or stand.
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The researches of Ewart, Osborn, and others show the probability that the modern horse, like the dog, has been derived from several sources. Prjevalsky's horse is considered to be one of these, while two other forms are recognized—the Celtic pony and the Norse horse.
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One of the inclined timbers in a staircase which support the steps.
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In mining: A lenticular bod of shale or old channel fillings which cuts out coal-seams.
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In chess, same as knight.
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In astronomy, the constellation of Pegasus (see flying horse); also, the equine part of Sagittarius (represented as a centaur).
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A Danish silver coin of the value of 1 s. 2 d.
An obsolete form of hoarse.
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A solidungulate perissodactyl mammal of the family Equidœ and genus Equus; E. caballus.
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plural In zoology, the horse family, or Equidæ; the species of the genus Equus and related genera.
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The male of the horse kind, in distinction from the female or mare; a stallion or gelding.
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A body of troops serving on horseback: cavalry: in this sense a collective noun, used also as a plural: as, a regiment of horse.
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A frame, block, board, or the like, on which something is mounted or supported, or the use of which is in any way analogous to that of a horse. Compare etymology of easel.
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Specifically— A vaulting-block in a gymnasium.