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HORSE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

Synonyms:

Equus caballus; horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("horse" is a kind of...):

equid; equine (hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck)

Meronyms (parts of "horse"):

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 part of the head between the ears)

horseflesh; horsemeat (the flesh of horses as food)

horse's foot (the hoof of a horse)

horseback (the back of a horse)

encolure (the mane of a horse)

Meronyms (members of "horse"):

foal (a young horse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horse"):

palomino (a horse of light tan or golden color with cream-colored or white mane and tail)

sorrel (a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color)

bay (a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color)

liver chestnut (a solid dark brown horse)

chestnut (a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse)

high stepper; stepper (a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting)

pacer (a horse trained to a special gait in which both feet on one side leave the ground together)

post-horse; post horse; poster (a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers)

workhorse (a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor)

harness horse (horse used for pulling vehicles)

stalking-horse (a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game)

steeplechaser (a horse trained to run in steeplechases)

bangtail; race horse; racehorse (a horse bred for racing)

pony (any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder)

hack; jade; nag; plug (an old or over-worked horse)

hack (a horse kept for hire)

wild horse (undomesticated or feral domestic horse)

polo pony (a small agile horse specially bred and trained for playing polo)

pony (a range horse of the western United States)

mount; riding horse; saddle horse (a lightweight horse kept for riding only)

female horse; mare (female equine animal)

male horse (the male of species Equus caballus)

protohippus (Pliocene horse approaching donkeys in size)

mesohippus (North American three-toed Oligocene animal; probably not directly ancestral to modern horses)

dawn horse; eohippus (earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal)

gee-gee (a word for horse used by children or in adult slang)

stable companion; stablemate (a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person)

roan (a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray)

pinto (a spotted or calico horse or pony)

Holonyms ("horse" is a member of...):

Equus; genus Equus (type genus of the Equidae: only surviving genus of the family Equidae)

Derivation:

horse (provide with a horse or horses)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

Synonyms:

gymnastic horse; horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("horse" is a kind of...):

exerciser; gymnastic apparatus (sports equipment used in gymnastic exercises)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horse"):

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)

buck; long horse; vaulting horse (a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

horse; knight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("horse" is a kind of...):

chess piece; chessman (any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess)

Domain category:

chess; chess game (a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Synonyms:

buck; horse; sawbuck; sawhorse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("horse" is a kind of...):

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horse"):

trestle (sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Troops trained to fight on horseback

Example:

500 horse led the attack

Synonyms:

cavalry; horse; horse cavalry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("horse" is a kind of...):

military personnel; soldiery; troops (soldiers collectively)

Meronyms (members of "horse"):

cavalryman; trooper (a soldier in a motorized army unit)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with a horse or horses

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "horse" is one way to...):

cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "horse"):

remount (provide with fresh horses)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Horses are active day and night with most of the day spent seeking and consuming food.

(Horse, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

We passed through several towns, and in one, a very large one, the coach stopped; the horses were taken out, and the passengers alighted to dine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The taxonomic order of mammals that includes odd-toed ungulates such as horses, zebras, tapirs, and rhinoceroses.

(Perissodactyla, NCI Thesaurus)

To go instantly to Geneva: come with me, Henry, to order the horses.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Soon after, Dr. Livesey's horse came to the door and he rode away, but the captain held his peace that evening, and for many evenings to come.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade's pace.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The keratinized outer portion of the foot of a horse.

(Hoof Wall, NCI Thesaurus)

Taxonomic family which includes horses, zebras, and asses.

(Equidae, NCI Thesaurus)

Equiidae - horses and their relatives.

(Family, NCI Thesaurus)

There are the horses, there is the smithy.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)