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horse

  [hawrs] noun, plural hors⋅es, (especially collectively) horse, verb, horsed, hors⋅ing, adjective
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–noun
1. a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
2. a fully mature male animal of this type; stallion.
3. any of several odd-toed ungulates belonging to the family Equidae, including the horse, zebra, donkey, and ass, having a thick, flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck and bearing the weight on only one functioning digit, the third, which is widened into a round or spade-shaped hoof.
4. something on which a person rides, sits, or exercises, as if astride the back of such an animal: rocking horse.
5. Also called trestle. a frame, block, etc., with legs, on which something is mounted or supported.
6. Gymnastics.
a. vaulting horse.
b. pommel horse.
7. Carpentry. carriage (def. 7).
8. soldiers serving on horseback; cavalry: a thousand horse.
9. Slang. a man; fellow.
10. Often, horses. Informal. horsepower.
11. horses, Slang. the power or capacity to accomplish something, as by having enough money, personnel, or expertise: Our small company doesn't have the horses to compete against a giant corporation.
12. Chess Informal. a knight.
13. Slang. a crib, translation, or other illicit aid to a student's recitation; trot; pony.
14. Mining. a mass of rock enclosed within a lode or vein.
15. Nautical. traveler (def. 6b).
16. Shipbuilding. a mold of a curved frame, esp. one used when the complexity of the curves requires laying out at full size.
17. Slang. heroin.
–verb (used with object)
18. to provide with a horse or horses.
19. to set on horseback.
20. to set or carry on a person's back or on one's own back.
21. Carpentry. to cut notches for steps into (a carriage beam).
22. to move with great physical effort or force: It took three men to horse the trunk up the stairs.
23. Slang.
a. to make (a person) the target of boisterous jokes.
b. to perform boisterously, as a part or a scene in a play.
24. Nautical.
a. to caulk (a vessel) with a hammer.
b. to work or haze (a sailor) cruelly or unfairly.
25. Archaic. to place (someone) on a person's back, in order to be flogged.
–verb (used without object)
26. to mount or go on a horse.
27. (of a mare) to be in heat.
28. Vulgar. to have coitus.
–adjective
29. of, for, or pertaining to a horse or horses: the horse family; a horse blanket.
30. drawn or powered by a horse or horses.
31. mounted or serving on horses: horse troops.
32. unusually large.
—Verb phrase
33. horse around, Slang. to fool around; indulge in horseplay.
—Idioms
34. back the wrong horse, to be mistaken in judgment, esp. in backing a losing candidate.
35. beat or flog a dead horse, to attempt to revive a discussion, topic, or idea that has waned, been exhausted, or proved fruitless.
36. from the horse's mouth, Informal. on good authority; from the original or a trustworthy source: I have it straight from the horse's mouth that the boss is retiring.
37. hold one's horses, Informal. to check one's impulsiveness; be patient or calm: Hold your horses! I'm almost ready.
38. horse of another color, something entirely different. Also, horse of a different color.
39. look a gift horse in the mouth, to be critical of a gift.
40. To horse! Mount your horse! Ride!
Origin:
bef. 900; (n.) ME, OE hors; c. ON hross, D ros, G Ross (MHG ros, OHG hros); (v.) ME horsen to provide with horses, OE horsian, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
horseless, adjective
horselike, adjective
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car⋅riage

  [kar-ij; for 9 also kar-ee-ij]
–noun
1. a wheeled vehicle for conveying persons, as one drawn by horses and designed for comfort and elegance.
2. baby carriage.
3. British. a railway passenger coach.
4. a wheeled support, as for a cannon.
5. a movable part, as of a machine, designed for carrying something.
6. manner of carrying the head and body; bearing: the carriage of a soldier.
7. Also called carriage piece, horse. an inclined beam, as a string, supporting the steps of a stair.
8. the act of transporting; conveyance: the expenses of carriage.
9. the price or cost of transportation.
10. (in a typewriter) the moving part carrying the platen and its associated parts, usually set in motion to carry the paper across the point where the print element or type bars strike.
11. management; administration.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME cariage < AF, ONF, equiv. to cari(er) to carry + -age -age

Synonyms:
1. cart, car, wagon. 6. mien, comportment, demeanor, air.

trav⋅el⋅er

  [trav-uh-ler, trav-ler]
–noun
1. a person or thing that travels.
2. a person who travels or has traveled in distant places or foreign lands.
3. traveling salesman.
4. part of a mechanism constructed to move in a fixed course.
5. Textiles. (in ring spinning) a small metal device that moves rapidly around the ring and guides the yarn onto the revolving bobbin.
6. Nautical.
a. a metal ring or thimble fitted to move freely on a rope, spar, or rod.
b. Also called horse. the rope, spar, or rod itself.
7. Also, traveler curtain. Theater. a transverse curtain opened by being drawn from both sides of the proscenium.
8. (often initial capital letter) Chiefly British. a member of any of a number of traditionally itinerant peoples of the British Isles and other English-speaking areas, including, in addition to people of Gypsy origin, autochthonous groups such as the speakers of Shelta.
Also, especially British, traveller.

Origin:
1325–75; ME travaillour. See travel, -er 1
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horse   (hôrs)   
n.  

    1. A large hoofed mammal (Equus caballus) having a short-haired coat, a long mane, and a long tail, domesticated since ancient times and used for riding and for drawing or carrying loads.

    2. An adult male horse; a stallion.

    3. Any of various equine mammals, such as the wild Asian species E. przewalskii or certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse.

    4. A block of rock interrupting a vein and containing no minerals.

    5. A large block of displaced rock that is caught along a fault.

  2. A frame or device, usually with four legs, used for supporting or holding.

  3. Sports A vaulting horse.

  4. Slang Heroin.

  5. Horsepower. Often used in the plural.

  6. Mounted soldiers; cavalry: a squadron of horse.

  7. Geology

    1. A block of rock interrupting a vein and containing no minerals.

    2. A large block of displaced rock that is caught along a fault.

v.   horsed, hors·ing, hors·es

v.   tr.

  1. To provide with a horse.

  2. To haul or hoist energetically: "Things had changed little since the days of the pyramids, with building materials being horsed into place by muscle power" (Henry Allen).

v.   intr.
To be in heat. Used of a mare.
adj.  

  1. Of or relating to a horse: a horse blanket.

  2. Mounted on horses: horse guards.

  3. Drawn or operated by a horse.

  4. Larger or cruder than others that are similar: horse pills.

Phrasal Verb(s):
horse around Informal To indulge in horseplay or frivolous activity: Stop horsing around and get to work.

Idiom(s):
a horse of another/a different colorAnother matter entirely; something else.

Idiom(s):
beat/flog a dead horse

  1. To continue to pursue a cause that has no hope of success.

  2. To dwell tiresomely on a matter that has already been decided.


Idiom(s):
be/get on (one's) high horseTo be or become disdainful, superior, or conceited.

Idiom(s):
hold (one's) horsesTo restrain oneself.

Idiom(s):
the horse's mouthA source of information regarded as original or unimpeachable.

[Middle English, from Old English hors.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
horse

  1. n.
    heroin. (Drugs. Because it begins with H.) : Horse is still very popular in the big cities.
  2. n.
    horse dung. : I got a job shoveling horse out of the stables.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

carriage 
1388, "act of carrying, means of conveyance," from Anglo-Fr. cariage "cart, carriage," from carier "to carry" (see carry). Specific sense of "horse-drawn, wheeled vehicle for hauling people" first attested 1706.

horse 
O.E. hors, from P.Gmc. *khursa- (cf. O.N. hross, O.Fris. hors, M.Du. ors, Du. ros, O.H.G. hros, Ger. Roß "horse"), of unknown origin, connected by some with PIE base *kurs-, source of L. currere "to run" (see current). Replaced O.E. eoh, from PIE *ekwo- "horse" (cf. Gk. hippos, L. equus, O.Ir. ech, Goth. aihwa-, Skt. açva-, all meaning "horse"). In many other languages, as in O.E., this root has been lost in favor of synonyms, probably via superstitious taboo on uttering the name of an animal so important in I.E. religion. Used since at least 1391 of various devices or appliances which suggest a horse (e.g. sawhorse). Slang for heroin is first attested 1950. Horseplay is from 1589. The belief that finding a horseshoe by chance is lucky is attested from late 14c. Horse latitudes first attested 1777, the name of unknown origin, despite much speculation. Dead horse as a figure for "something that has ceased to be useful" is attested from 1638. High horse originally (c.1380) was "war horse, charger;" fig. sense in mount (one's) high horse "affect airs of superiority" is from 1782. The horse's mouth as a source of reliable information is from 1928, perhaps from the fact that a horse's age can be determined accurately by looking at its teeth. To swap horses while crossing the river (a bad idea) is first attested 1864 in writings of Abraham Lincoln. Horse sense is 1870, Amer.Eng. colloquial, probably from the same association of "strong, large, coarse" found in horseradish.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: horse
Pronunciation: 'ho(&)rs
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural hors·es also horse
: a largesolid-hoofed herbivorous mammal of the genus Equus (E. caballus) domesticated since a prehistoric period
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Bible Dictionary

Horse

always referred to in the Bible in connection with warlike operations, except Isa. 28:28. The war-horse is described Job 39:19-25. For a long period after their settlement in Canaan the Israelites made no use of horses, according to the prohibition, Deut. 17:16. David was the first to form a force of cavalry (2 Sam. 8:4). But Solomon, from his connection with Egypt, greatly multiplied their number (1 Kings 4:26; 10:26, 29). After this, horses were freely used in Israel (1 Kings 22:4; 2 Kings 3:7; 9:21, 33; 11:16). The furniture of the horse consisted simply of a bridle (Isa. 30:28) and a curb (Ps. 32:9).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

horse

In addition to the idioms beginning with horse, also see back the wrong horse; beat a dead horse; cart before the horse; change horses in midstream; charley horse; dark horse; eat like a bird (horse); from the horse's mouth; hold one's horses; if wishes were horses; look a gift horse in the mouth; on one's high horse; war horse; wild horses couldn't drag; work like a beaver (horse); you can lead a horse to water.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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