Horse Definition
hôrs
horsed, horses, horsing
noun
horses
A vaulting horse.
American Heritage
A device, esp. a frame with legs, to support something.
Webster's New World
Anything like a horse in that a person sits, rides, or is carried on it.
Webster's New World
Heroin.
American Heritage
A domesticated or wild, perissodactylous mammal (Equus caballus), raised in many breeds, having a large body and head, four usually long, thin legs, and a long, flowing tail: horses have been ridden, used to pull loads, etc. since ancient times.
Webster's New World
verb
horsed, horses, horsing
To mount or go on horseback.
Webster's New World
To supply with a horse or horses; put on horseback.
Webster's New World
To shove; push.
Webster's New World
To haul or hoist energetically.
American Heritage
To be in heat. Used of a mare.
American Heritage Medicine
adjective
Of a horse or horses.
Webster's New World
Mounted on horses.
Webster's New World
Drawn or operated by a horse.
American Heritage
Large, strong, or coarse of its kind.
Horse mackerel.
Webster's New World
Larger or cruder than others in the same category.
Horse pills.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
idiom
a horse of another
- Another matter entirely; something else.
American Heritage
beat
- To continue to pursue a cause that has no hope of success.
- To dwell tiresomely on a matter that has already been decided.
American Heritage
be
- To be or become disdainful, superior, or conceited.
American Heritage
hold (one's) horses
- To restrain oneself.
American Heritage
the horse's mouth
- A source of information regarded as original or unimpeachable.
American Heritage
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Horse
- a horse of another
- beat
- be
- hold (one's) horses
- the horse's mouth
- back the wrong horse
- beat a dead horse
- from the horse's mouth
- hold one's horses
- horse around
- horse of another color
- on one's high horse
- to horse!
Origin of Horse
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From Middle English horse, hors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sos (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old English hors Old Norse hross horse and German Ross steed
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Initialism of Texas hold 'em, Omaha eight or better, razz, seven card stud, and seven card stud eight or better.
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From horse, the word used to keep track of missed shots
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