Definition of horse

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

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Hippocrepian :: Hippocrepian (n.) One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolaema..
Farrier :: Farrier (n.) A shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon.
Barbary :: Barbary (n.) The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon..
Malanders :: Malanders (n. pl.) A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.
Light :: Light (superl.) Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons; as, light troops; a troop of light horse..
Brisket :: Brisket (n.) That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest..
Drosky :: Drosky (n.) A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities..
Protohippus :: Protohippus (n.) A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small..
Henna :: Henna (n.) A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc..
Manger :: Manger (n.) A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.
Jade :: Jade (n.) A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag.
Mount :: Mount (v.) A horse.
Sire :: Sire (n.) The male parent of a beast; -- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire..
Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable..
Favel :: Favel (n.) A horse of a favel or dun color.
Cleg :: Cleg (n.) A small breeze or horsefly.
Short-jointed :: Short-jointed (a.) Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short..
Jibber :: Jibber (n.) A horse that jibs.
Rider :: Rider (n.) A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
Gomuti :: Gomuti (n.) A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo..
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