Definition of horses Horses
/hÉĖɹsŹz/ - [horsuz] - horsā¢es
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Wiktionary 
- horses (Noun)
Plural of horse.
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| horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | ||
| Equus caballus | ||
| equid, equine hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck | ||
| equus, genus equus type genus of the Equidae: only surviving genus of the family Equidae | ||
| encolure the mane of a horse | ||
| horseback the back of a horse | ||
| horse's foot the hoof of a horse | ||
| roan a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray | ||
| stable companion, stablemate a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person | ||
| gee-gee a word for horse used by children or in adult slang | ||
| dawn horse, eohippus earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal | ||
| mesohippus North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses | ||
| protohippus Pliocene horse approaching donkeys in size | ||
| foal a young horse | ||
| male horse the male of species Equus caballus | ||
| female horse, mare female equine animal | ||
| riding horse, saddle horse, mount a lightweight horse kept for riding only | ||
| pony a range horse of the western United States | ||
| polo pony a small agile horse specially bred and trained for playing polo | ||
| wild horse undomesticated or feral domestic horse | ||
| hack a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. | ||
| nag, jade, plug, hack a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite | ||
| pony a range horse of the western United States | ||
| bangtail, race horse, racehorse a horse bred for racing | ||
| steeplechaser a horse trained to run in steeplechases | ||
| stalking-horse a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game | ||
| harness horse horse used for pulling vehicles | ||
| workhorse a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor | ||
| post-horse, post horse, poster a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers | ||
| pacer a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together | ||
| high stepper, stepper a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting | ||
| chestnut a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse | ||
| liver chestnut a solid dark brown horse | ||
| bay a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color | ||
| sorrel a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color | ||
| palomino a horse of light tan or golden color with cream-colored or white mane and tail | ||
| pinto a spotted or calico horse or pony | ||
| withers the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals | ||
| gaskin lower part of a horse's thigh between the hock and the stifle | ||
| poll the counting of votes (as in an election) | ||
| horse - a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs | ||
| gymnastic horse | ||
| exerciser, gymnastic apparatus sports equipment used in gymnastic exercises | ||
| pommel horse, side horse a gymnastic horse with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright handles (pommels) near the center; held upright by two steel supports, one at each end | ||
| horse - troops trained to fight on horseback; "500 horse led the attack" | ||
| cavalry, horse cavalry | ||
| soldiery, troops, military personnel soldiers collectively | ||
| armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" | ||
| horse - a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | ||
| knight | ||
| chess piece, chessman any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess | ||
| horse - a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | ||
| sawhorse, sawbuck, buck | ||
| framework a structure supporting or containing something | ||
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| horse - provide with a horse or horses | ||
| cater, supply, ply, provide supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets | ||
| remount provide with fresh horses; "remount a regiment" | ||
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Wiktionary
- horse (Noun)
A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus , often used throughout history for riding and draft work. - horse (Noun)
Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass. - horse (Noun)
Cavalry soldiers sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category. - horse (Noun)
In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top. - horse (Noun)
The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname. - horse (Noun)
A large person. - horse (Noun)
A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; foot ropes . - horse (Noun)
The sedative, anti-depressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly. - horse (Noun)
Heroin. - horse (Verb)
To frolic, to act mischieviously. - horse (Verb)
To provide with a horse. - horse (Verb)
To get on horseback.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary š
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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 its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes. - horse (n.)
The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male. - horse (n.)
Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot. - horse (n.)
A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc. - 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; a hobby. - 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 (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; to mount on, or as on, a horse. - horse (v. t.)
To sit astride of; to bestride. - horse (v. t.)
To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male. - horse (v. t.)
To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer. - 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 (v. i.)
To get on horseback.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ī©
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A large animal with four legs of the Equus caballus species which people ride on or use for carrying things or pulling vehicles.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary š
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hors, n. a well-known quadruped: (collectively) cavalry: that by which something is supported, as 'clothes-horse,' &c.: a wooden frame on which soldiers were formerly made to ride as a punishmentāalso Timber-mare: a boy's crib, a translation.āv.t. to mount on a horse: to provide with a horse: to sit astride: to carry on the back: to urge at work tyrannically: to construe by means of a crib.āv.i. to get on horseback: to charge for work before it is done.āns. Horseā²-artillā²ery, field artillery with comparatively light guns and the gunners mounted; Horseā²back, the back of a horse; Horseā²-bean, a large bean given to horses; Horseā²-block, a block or stage by which to mount or dismount from a horse; Horseā²-boat, a boat for carrying horses, or one towed by a horse; Horseā²-box, a railway car for transporting horses in, or a stall on shipboard; Horseā²-boy, a stable-boy; Horseā²-breakā²er, Horseā²-tamā²er, one whose business is to break or tame horses, or to teach them to draw or carry (Pretty horse-breaker, a woman with little virtue to lose); Horseā²-car, a car drawn by horses; Horseā²-chestā²nut, a large variety of chestnut, prob. so called from its coarseness contrasted with the edible chestnut: the tree that produces it (see Chestnut); Horseā²-cloth, a cloth for covering a horse; Horseā²-coupā²er (Scot.), a horse-dealer; Horseā²-dealā²er, one who deals in horses; Horseā²-docā²tor, a veterinary surgeon; Horseā²-drench, a dose of physic for a horse.āadj. Horseā²-faced, having a long face.āns. Horseā²-flesh, the flesh of a horse: horses collectively: a Bahama mahogany.āadj. of reddish-bronze colour.āns. Horseā²-fly, a large fly that stings horses; Horseā²-foot, the colt's foot; Horseā²-godā²mother, a fat clumsy woman.ān.pl. Horseā²-guards, horse-soldiers employed as guards: the 3d heavy cavalry regiment of the British army, forming part of the household troops: the War Office, or public office in Whitehall, London, appropriated to the departments of the commander-in-chief of the British army.āns. Horseā²-hair, the hair of horses: haircloth; Horseā²-hoe, a hoe drawn by horses; Horseā²-knackā²er, one who buys worn-out horses for slaughtering; Horseā²-latā²itudes, a part of the North Atlantic Ocean noted for long calms, so called from the frequent necessity of throwing part of a cargo of horses overboard from want of water when becalmed; Horseā²-laugh, a harsh, boisterous laugh; Horseā²-leech, a large species of leech, so named from its fastening on horses when wading in the water: a bloodsucker (Prov. xxx. 15); Horseā²-littā²er, a litter or bed borne between two horses; Horseā²-mackā²erel, one of various fishesāthe scad (q.v.), &c.; Horseā²man, a rider on horseback: a mounted soldier; Horseā²manship, the art of riding, and of training and managing horses; Horseā²-maā²rine, a person quite out of his element: an imaginary being for whom wild flights of imagination had best be reserved ('Tell it to the horse-marines'); Horse-mill, a mill turned by horses; Horseā²-millā²iner, one who provides the trappings for horses; Horseā²-mint, a common European wild-mint: the American Monarda punctataāSweet horse-mint, the common dittany; Horseā²-nail, a nail for fastening a horse-shoe to the hoof; Horseā²-pisā²tol, a large pistol carried in a holster; Horseā²-play, rough, boisterous play; Horseā²-pond, a pond for watering horses at; Horseā²-powā²er, the power a horse can exert, or its equivalent=that required to raise 33,000 lb. avoirdupois one foot per minute: a standard for estimating the power of steam-engines; Horseā²-race, a race by horses; Horseā²-racā²ing, the practice of racing or running horses in matches; Horseā²-radā²ish, a plant with a pungent root, used in medicine and as a condiment; Horseā²-rake, a rake drawn by horses; Horseā²-ridā²ing, a circus; Horseā²-sense, plain robust sense; Horseā²-shoe, a shoe for horses, consisting of a curved piece of iron.āadj. shaped like a horse-shoe.āns. Horseā²-solā²dier, a cavalry soldier; Horseā²-tail, a genus of leafless plants with hollow rush-like stems, so called from their likeness to a horse's tail; Horseā²-trainā²er, one who trains horses for racing, &c.; Horseā²-way, a road by which a horse may pass; Horseā²-whip, a whip for driving horses.āv.t. to strike with a horse-whip: to lash.āns. Horseā²woman, a woman who rides on horseback; Horsā²iness; Horsā²ing, birching a schoolboy mounted on another's back.āadj. Horsā²y, of or pertaining to horses: devoted to horse racing or breeding.āA dark horse (see Dark); Flog a dead horse, to try to work up excitement about a threadbare subject; Get on, Mount, the high horse, to assume consequential airs; Put the cart before the horse (see Cart); Ride the wooden horse (see above); Take horse, to mount on horseback. [A.S. hors; Ice. horss, Old High Ger. hros (Ger. ross).]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine āļø
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marche-pied, a rope reaching from the middle of a yard to its extremity, or what is called the yard-arm, and depending about two or three feet under the yard for the sailors to tread upon, whilst they are loosing, reefing or furling the sails, rigging out the studding-sail booms, &c. In order therefore to keep the horse more parallel to the yard, it is usually suspended thereto, at proper distances, by certain ropes called stirrups, which hang about two feet under the yard, having an eye in their lower ends through which the horse passes. See the article RIGGING. -
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is also a thick rope, extended in a perpendicular direction near the fore or after-side of a mast, for the purpose of hoisting or extending some sail thereon. When it is fixed before a mast, it is calculated for the use of a sail called the square-sail, whose yard being attached to the horse, by means of a traveller, or bullās-eye, which slides up and down occasionally, is retained in a steddy position, either when the sail is set, or whilst it is hoisting or lowering. When the horse is placed abaft or behind a mast, it is intended for the try-sail of a snow, and is accordingly very rarely fixed in this position, except in those sloops of war which occasionally assume the form of snows, in order to deceive the enemy.
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer š„
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A military term for a body of cavalry.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary š
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A good horse cannot be of a bad colour. -
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One man may lead a horse to water, but fifty cannot make him drink.
Wikipedia 
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A horse is a mammal of the "Equidae" family.
A male horse is a "stallion", and a female horse is a "mare". The general term for a young horse is "foal". A young female horse is a "filly", and a young male horse is a "colt". A castrated horse is a "gelding".
Horses and humans.
Horses have been domesticated for at least 5000 years. They have been used by humans in many different ways, for transportation, work, and food.
They are used for riding, as transport, sport and fun. They are also used for carrying things or pulling wagons, or to help plow fields in agriculture. Horses have also been used for meat, milk, and glue. Today, horses are mostly used for entertainment and sports. They also are still used for work and transportation in some places. Riding a horse to a place is known as coming "straight from the horse."
The latin name for horse is Equus.
