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HORSE

1. To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse. "Being better horsed, outrode me." 2. To sit astride of; to bestride. 3. To cover, as a mare; said of the male. 4. To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer. 5. To seat on the back of other, or on a wooden horse, etc, to be flogged; to subject to such punishment. Origin: AS. Horsion. 1. A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. Caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on every side of every jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and adown. The mares generally have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in power, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of nature, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes. Many varieties, differing in form, size, colour, gait, speed, etc, are known, but all are believed to have been derived from the same original species. It is supposed to have been a native of the plains of Central Asia, but the wild species from which it was derived is not certainly known. The feral horses of America are domestic horses that have run wild; and it is perhaps true that most of those of Asia have a similar origin. Some of the true wild Asiatic horses do, however, approach the domestic horse in different characteristics. Different species of fossil (Equus) are known from the later Tertiary formations of Europe and America. The fossil species of another genera of the family Equidae are also often called horses, in common sense. 2. The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; generally, a castrated male. 3. Mounted soldiery; cavalry; used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; distinguished from foot. "The armies were nominated, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot." (Bacon) 4. A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc. 5. A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. 6. Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby. 7. A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same nature as the wall rock, occurring in the rate of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse said of a vein is to divide into divisions for a distance. 8. See Footrope, A breastband for a leadsman. An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon. A jackstay. Horse is many used adjectively and in composition to signify of, or having to do with, a horse or horses, like a horse, etc.; as, horse collar, horse dealer or horsedealer, horsehoe, horse jockey; and hence, often in the sense of strong, loud, coarse, etc.; as, horselaugh, horse nettle or horse-nettle, horseplay, horse ant, etc. Black horse, Blood horse, etc. See Black, etc. Horse aloes, caballine aloes. Horse ant, a big ant (Formica rufa); called also horse emmet. Horse artillery, that portion of the artillery in which the cannoneers are mounted, and which generally serves with the cavalry; flying artillery. Horse balm, a plant of the genus Hippocrepis (H. Comosa), cultivated for the beauty of its flowers; called also horsehoe vetch, from the peculiar shape of its pods. Iron horse, a locomotive. Salt horse, the sailor's name for salt beef. To look a present horse in the mouth, to examine the mouth of a horse which has been received as a present, in order to ascertain his age; hence, to accept favors in a critical and thankless spirit. To take horse. To set out on horseback. To be covered, as a mare. See definition 7 (above). Origin: AS. Hors; akin to OS. Hros, D. & OHG. Ros, G. Ross, Icel. Hross; and perh. To L. Currere to run, E. Rate, current Cf. Walrus. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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