Ahorseback :: Ahorseback (adv.) On horseback.

Bathorse :: Bathorse (n.) A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.

Bawhorse :: Bawhorse (n.) Same as Bathorse.

Clotheshorse :: Clotheshorse (n.) A frame to hang clothes on.

Cockhorse :: Cockhorse (n.) A child's rocking-horse.

Cockhorse :: Cockhorse (n.) A high or tall horse.

Cockhorse :: Cockhorse (a.) Lifted up, as one is on a tall horse..

Cockhorse :: Cockhorse (a.) Lofty in feeling; exultant; proud; upstart.

Dishorse :: Dishorse (v. t.) To dismount.

Hobbyhorse :: Hobbyhorse (n.) A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag..

Hobbyhorse :: Hobbyhorse (n.) A stick, often with the head or figure of a horse, on which boys make believe to ride..

Hobbyhorse :: Hobbyhorse (n.) A subject or plan upon which one is constantly setting off; a favorite and ever-recurring theme of discourse, thought, or effort; that which occupies one's attention unduly, or to the weariness of others; a ruling passion..

Horse :: Horse (n.) 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 each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually 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

Horse :: Horse (n.) The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male..

Horse :: Horse (n.) Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot..

Horse :: Horse (n.) A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc..

Horse :: Horse (n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment..

Horse :: Horse (n.) Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby..

Horse :: Horse (n.) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance..

Horse :: Horse (n.) See Footrope, a..

Horse :: Horse (a.) A breastband for a leadsman.

Horse :: Horse (a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.

Horse :: Horse (a.) A jackstay.

Horse :: Horse (v. t.) To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse..

Horse :: Horse (v. t.) To sit astride of; to bestride.

Horse :: Horse (v. t.) To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male..

Horse :: Horse (v. t.) To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer..

Horse :: Horse (v. t.) To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment..

Horse :: Horse (v. i.) To get on horseback.

Horse Guards :: Horse Guards () A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign..

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