Horse (n.) A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus |
Horse (n.) The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male |
Horse (n.) Mounted soldiery |
Horse (n.) A frame with legs, used to support something |
Horse (n.) A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment. |
Horse (n.) Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a 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 |
Horse (n.) See Footrope, a. |
Horse (a.) A breastband for a leadsman. |
Horse (a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon. |
Horse (a.) A jackstay. |
Horse (v. t.) To provide with a horse, or with horses |
Horse (v. t.) To sit astride of |
Horse (v. t.) To cover, as a mare |
Horse (v. t.) To take or carry on the back |
Horse (v. t.) To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged |
Horse (v. i.) To get on horseback. |
Horse-chestnut (n.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. |
Horse-chestnut (n.) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes. |
Horse-drench (n.) A dose of physic for a horse. |
Horse-drench (n.) The appliance by which the dose is administred. |
Horse Guards () A body of cavalry so called |
Horse-jockey (n.) A professional rider and trainer of race horses. |
Horse-jockey (n.) A trainer and dealer in horses. |
Horse-leech (n.) A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis vorax), of Europe and Northern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses. |
Horse-leech (n.) A farrier |
Horse-leechery (n.) The business of a farrier |
Horse-litter (n.) A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. |
Horse power () The power which a horse exerts. |
Horse power () A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute |
Horse power () A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery |
Horse-radish (n.) A plant of the genus Nasturtium (N. Armoracia), allied to scurvy grass, having a root of a pungent taste, much used, when grated, as a condiment and in medicine. |
One-horse (a.) Drawn by one horse |
One-horse (a.) Second-rate |
Rear-horse (n.) A mantis. |
Rocking-horse (n.) The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride. |
Sea horse () A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus. |
Sea horse () The walrus. |
Sea horse () Any fish of the genus Hippocampus. |
Stalking-horse (n.) A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill. |
Stalking-horse (n.) Fig.: Something used to cover up a secret project |
Stone-horse (n.) Stallion. |
Stud-horse (n.) A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding. |
Town (adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. |
Town (adv. & prep.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop. |
Town (adv. & prep.) Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city |
Town (adv. & prep.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town |
Town (adv. & prep.) A township |
Town (adv. & prep.) The court end of London |
Town (adv. & prep.) The metropolis or its inhabitants |