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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Forage :: Forage (v. i.) To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil..
Lash :: Lash (n.) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back..
Rutter :: Rutter (n.) A horseman or trooper.
Farcy :: Farcy (n.) A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen..
Stopping-out :: Stopping (n.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
Canon Bone :: Canon bone () The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse..
Cavort :: Cavort (v. i.) To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.
Horsemanship :: Horsemanship (n.) The act or art of riding, and of training and managing horses; manege..
Hipparion :: Hipparion (n.) An extinct genus of Tertiary mammals allied to the horse, but three-toed, having on each foot a small lateral hoof on each side of the main central one. It is believed to be one of the ancestral genera of the Horse family..
Kick :: Kick (v. t.) To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog..
Break :: Break (v. t.) To tame; to reduce to subjection; to make tractable; to discipline; as, to break a horse to the harness or saddle..
Cataphract :: Cataphract (n.) A horseman covered with a cataphract.
Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse..
Plunge :: Plunge (n.) The act of pitching or throwing one's self headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse..
Card :: Card (v. t.) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse..
Cattle :: Cattle (n. pl.) Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine..
Groggy :: Groggy (a.) Moving in a hobbling manner, owing to ten der feet; -- said of a horse..
Crib :: Crib (v. i.) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
Rocking-horse :: Rocking-horse (n.) The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride..
Horse Power :: Horse power () A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery; a horse motor..
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