horse

verb

horsed; horsing

transitive verb

1

: to provide with a horse (see horse sense 1a(1))

horsing a coach

a horsed vehicle

2

: to move by brute force

… sweating gunners horsed their pieces into action …

—Bruce Catton

intransitive verb

of a mare : to be in heat or estrus

Word History

Etymology

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Phrases Containing horse

• a horse of a different color
• American paint horse
• Arabian horse
• beat a dead horse
• charley horse
• cow horse
• cutting horse
• dark horse
• dawn horse
• dead horse
• dray horse
• eat a horse
• flog a dead horse
• from the horse's mouth
• harness horse
• high horse
• horse about
• horse-and-buggy
• horse around
• horse chestnut
• horse coper
• horse-drawn
• horse gentian
• horse latitudes
• horse mackerel
• horse nettle
• horse opera
• horse race
• horse sense
• horse show
• horse trade
• iron horse
• long horse
• look a gift horse in the mouth
• one-horse
• one-horse towns
• paint horse
• pommel horse
• post-horse
• Przewalski horse
• Przewalski's horse
• put the cart before the horse
• quarter horse
• river horse
• rocking horse
• saddle horse
• side horse
• stalking horse
• stud horse
• Tennessee walking horse
• the wrong horse
• trial horse
• Trojan horse
• vaulting horse

Rhymes for horse

• bourse
• coarse
• course
• force
• gorse
• hoarse
• norse
• source
• concourse
• divorce
• endorse
• enforce

Kids Definition

horse

1 of 2 noun

ˈhȯ(ə)rs 

plural horses also horse

1

a

: a large hoofed grazing domestic mammal that is used to carry or draw loads and for riding

b

: a male horse : stallion

2

a

: a frame that supports something (as wood while being cut)

b

: a piece of gymnasium equipment used for balancing and swinging movements or for vaulting exercises

3

horse plural : cavalry

horse adjective

horse

2 of 2 verb

horsed; horsing

: to provide with a horse

Medical Definition

horse

noun

ˈhȯ(ə)rs 

plural horses also horse

: a large solid-hoofed herbivorous mammal of the genus Equus (E. caballus) domesticated since prehistoric times