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a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

a chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

a chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

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.

The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

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

Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

See Footrope, a.

A breastband for a leadsman.

An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.

A jackstay.

To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.

To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

To get on horseback.

Horseplay; tomfoolery.

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

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.

To cover, as a mare; - said of the male.

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; - called also trot, pony, Dobbin.

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.

The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

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

Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

See Footrope, a.

A breastband for a leadsman.

An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.

A jackstay.

To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.

To sit astride of; to bestride.

To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.

To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

To get on horseback.

Horseplay; tomfoolery.

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

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.

To cover, as a mare; - said of the male.

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; - called also trot, pony, Dobbin.

To get on horseback.

A well-known quadruped: (collectively) cavalry: that by which something is supported.

To mount on a horse: to provide with a horse: to sit astride: to carry on the back.

Large, hoofed mammals of the family EQUIDAE. Horses are active day and night with most of the day spent seeking and consuming food. Feeding peaks occur in the early morning and late afternoon, and there are several daily periods of rest.

A solid-hoofed quadruped, used for riding or drawing burdens; a male of the species; cavalry; a framework or machine for the support of anything.

To mount on, or furnish with, a horse; carry on horseback; place astride.

A solid-hoofed quadruped; cavalry; contrivance for carrying or supporting.

To place on, or furnish with, a horse.

To mount or carry, as on a horse; furnish horses for.

A solid hoofed quadruped having a mane and tail of long coarse hair, and relatively small ears and head.

The male of the horse.

Mounted troops; cavalry.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, French, German, Sanskrit] A well-known hoofed quadruped used for draught or the saddle;—the male of the genus horse in distinction from the female;—mounted soldiery; cavalry;—a frame with legs used for supporting something;—a wooden machine on which soldiers ride for punishment;—a rope stretched under the yard on which sailors stand when handing the sails.

A neighing quadruped, used in war, and draught and carriage; it is used in the plural sense, but with a singular termination, for horses, horsemen, or cavalry; something on which any thing is supported; a wooden machine which soldiers ride by way of punishment; joined to another substantive, it signifies something large or coarse, as a horse-face, a face of which the features are large and in delicate.