n. A solidungulate perissodactyl mammal of the family Equidœ and genus Equus; E. caballus.n. plural In zoology, the horse family, or Equidæ; the species of the genus Equus and related genera.n. The male of the horse kind, in distinction from the female or mare; a stallion or gelding.n. A body of troops serving on horseback: cavalry: in this sense a collective noun, used also as a plural: as, a regiment of horse.n. A frame, block, board, or the like, on which something is mounted or supported, or the use of which is in any way analogous to that of a horse. Compare etymology of easel.n. Specifically— A vaulting-block in a gymnasium.n. A wooden frame on which soldiers are made to ride as a punishment: sometimes called a timber mare.n. A saw-horse.n. A clothes-horse.n. A currier’ board, used in dressing hides.n. In printing, a sloping board, with its support, placed on the bank close to the tympan of a hand-press, on which is laid the paper to be printed.n. A support for the cables of a suspension-bridge.n. A board on which the workman sits in grinding the bevels and edges of tools in their manufacture. Also horsing.n. In mining, a mass of rock inclosed within a lode or vein, usually of the same material as the “country,” or rock adjacent to the lode on each side.n. In metallurgy, same as bear, 7.n. An implement or a device for some service suggesting or supposed to suggest that of a horse.n. Nautical: A foot-rope.n. A jack-stay, on the forward or after side of a mast, on which a sail or yard is hoisted.n. A traveler for the sheet-block of a fore-and-aft sail, consisting of a horizontal bar of wood or iron.n. The iron bar between the posts of a fife-rail to which the leading-blocks are fastened.n. A translation or similar forbidden aid used by a pupil in the preparation of his lessons; a “pony”; a “trot”; a “crib”: so called as helping the pupil to get on faster.n. Among British workmen, work charged for before it is executed.n. A term of opprobrium. Compare ass, similarly used.n. [Horse, as the first element of a compound. indicates a large or coarse thing of its kind: as, horse-chestnut, horse-crab, horse-mackerel, horse-play, etc.]n. Hence— Any competitor for or recipient of a prize, honors, or office concerning whom nothing certain is known, or whose identity is at first concealed, as for reasons of strategy; one who is unexpectedly brought forward as a candidate, or for nomination in a convention: much used in American politics.n. The cavalry and infantry — that is, the whole army: as, they were routed, horse, foot, and dragoons.n. As used adverbially, indiscriminately; without favor.n. Take horse; mount: used absolutely, as a signal or command.n. To be covered, as a mare.n. In mining, to divide into branches for a distance: said of a vein.To provide with a horse; supply horses for, as a body of cavalry, etc.To sit astride; bestride.To cover: said of the male.To mount or place on or as on the back of a horse; set on horseback; hence, to take on one's own back.To mount on another's back preparatory to flogging.. Nautical, to “ride” hard; drive or urge at work unfairly or tyrannically: as, to horse a ship's crew.To make out or learn by means of a translation or other extrinsic aid: as, to horse a lesson in Virgil.To get on horseback; mount or ride on a horse.To charge for work before it is executed.In calking, to embed firmly in the seams of a ship, as oakum, with a horsing-iron and a mallet: often with up.An obsolete form of hoarse.n. The researches of Ewart, Osborn, and others show the probability that the modern horse, like the dog, has been derived from several sources. Prjevalsky's horse is considered to be one of these, while two other forms are recognized—the Celtic pony and the Norse horse.n. One of the inclined timbers in a staircase which support the steps.n. In mining: A lenticular bod of shale or old channel fillings which cuts out coal-seams.n. In chess, same as knight.n. In astronomy, the constellation of Pegasus (see flying horse); also, the equine part of Sagittarius (represented as a centaur).n. A Danish silver coin of the value of 1 s. 2 d.To hang (as skins) over a wooden horse or stand.