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Horse

noun

Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times. Synonym: Equus caballus.

A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs. Synonym: gymnastic horse.

Troops trained to fight on horseback. Synonyms: cavalry, horse cavalry.

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed. Synonyms: buck, sawbuck, sawhorse.

A chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa). Synonym: knight.

verb

(past & past part. horsed; pres. part. horsing)

Provide with a horse or horses.

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"Horse" Quotes from Famous Books

... the heavy share on the dark soil: Upon the black mould thick the dew-damp lies: The horse waits patient: from his lowly toil The ploughboy to the morning ...

— By Still Waters - Lyrical Poems Old and New • George William Russell

... obscure began to clear. As if five hundred dollars, safely deposited in a marble-front bank, wasn't enough for one week to convince me that life had something for me besides misfortune, three days after Mrs. Sewall called I received a summons from Mrs. Scot-Williams, whose horse I rode in the suffrage parade. Out of a sky already cleared of its darkest clouds there shot a shaft of light. I could see nothing at first but the brightness of Mrs. Scot-Williams' proposition. It blinded me to all else. I felt as if some enormous searchlight from ...

— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty

... remedy would be, never to suffer one's self to have an emotion at a concert, without expressing it afterward in some active way. Let the expression be the least thing in the world-speaking genially to one's aunt, or giving up one's seat in a horse-car, if nothing more heroic offers-but let it not fail to take place." Professor James also refers in this connection to an interesting paper by Vida Scudder in the Andover Review for January, 1887, ...

— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake

... as soon as Daddy joined him. "Here you are—and you're just in time! For there's the wagon rattling down the next hill. And old Ebenezer (that's the horse, please remember!) he'll climb this rise as fast as he can, because he's in a hurry to ...

— The Tale of Daddy Longlegs - Tuck-Me-In Tales • Arthur Scott Bailey

... misconceptions or misrepresentations. For all work we need the human brain, the human time-binding power, yet we continue to call it "hand-labor" and treat it as such. Even in mechanical science, in the use of the term "horse-power," we are incorrect in this expression. How does this "horse" look in reality? Let us analyse this "horse." All science, all mechanical appliances have been produced by "man" and man alone. Everything we possess is the production of either dead men's or living men's work. The enslavement ...

— Manhood of Humanity. • Alfred Korzybski

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