| carthorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, drayhorse |
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| clotheshorse | (noun) a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) | - |
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| (noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
| cockhorse | (noun) anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult) | - |
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| corselet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corslet |
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| corset | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: girdle, stays |
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| drayhorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, carthorse |
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| endorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: indorsement |
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| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
| (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, indorsement |
| (noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: indorsement, second, secondment |
| (noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: indorsement |
| endorser | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: indorser, ratifier, subscriber |
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| (noun) a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | Synonyms: indorser |
| gorse | (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin |
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| hobbyhorse | (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobby, rocking horse |
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| (noun) a topic to which one constantly reverts | - |
| horse | (noun) solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | Synonyms: Equus caballus |
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| (noun) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | Synonyms: knight |
| (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, sawbuck, sawhorse |
| (noun) a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs | Synonyms: gymnastic horse |
| (noun) troops trained to fight on horseback | Synonyms: cavalry, horse cavalry |
| horseback | (noun) the back of a horse | - |
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| (noun) a narrow ridge of hills | Synonyms: hogback |
| horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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| (noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
| horsebox | (noun) a conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses | - |
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| horsecar | (noun) an early form of streetcar that was drawn by horses | - |
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| horsecloth | (noun) a cloth for the trapping of a horse | - |
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| horsefish | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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| horseflesh | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horsemeat |
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| horsefly | (noun) large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | Synonyms: cleg, clegg, horse fly |
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| (noun) winged fly parasitic on horses | Synonyms: Hippobosca equina, horse tick |
| horsehair | (noun) a fabric made from fibers taken from the mane or tail of horses; used for upholstery | - |
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| (noun) hair taken from the mane or tail of a horse | - |
| horsehead | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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| horsehide | (noun) leather from the hide of a horse | - |
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| horselaugh | (noun) a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing | Synonyms: ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw |
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| horseleech | (noun) any of several large freshwater leeches | - |
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| horseman | (noun) a person who breeds and cares for horses | Synonyms: horse fancier |
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| (noun) a man skilled in equitation | - |
| horsemanship | (noun) skill in handling and riding horses | - |
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| horsemeat | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horseflesh |
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| horsemint | (noun) a coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States | Synonyms: Mentha longifolia |
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| (noun) tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico | Synonyms: Monarda punctata |
| (noun) an annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: lemon mint, Monarda citriodora |
| horseplay | (noun) rowdy or boisterous play | - |
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| horsepond | (noun) a pond for watering horses | - |
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| horsepower | (noun) a unit of power equal to 746 watts | Synonyms: H.P., HP |
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| horseradish | (noun) grated horseradish root | - |
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| (noun) coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root | Synonyms: Armoracia rusticana, horse radish, red cole |
| (noun) the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning | Synonyms: horseradish root |
| horseshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, Irish bull, shit |
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| horseshoe | (noun) U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof | Synonyms: shoe |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes | - |
| horseshoer | (noun) a person who shoes horses | Synonyms: farrier |
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| horseshoes | (noun) a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it | Synonyms: quoits |
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| horseshow | (noun) a competitive exhibition of horses | - |
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| horsetail | (noun) perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in Northern Hemisphere; some in Africa and South America | - |
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| horseweed | (noun) common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron | Synonyms: Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis, fleabane |
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| (noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, richweed, stone-root, stone root, stoneroot |
| horsewhip | (noun) a whip for controlling horses | - |
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| horsewhipping | (noun) the act of whipping with a horsewhip | - |
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| horsewoman | (noun) a woman horseman | - |
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| indorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: endorsement |
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| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, sanction, warrant |
| (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, endorsement |
| (noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: endorsement, second, secondment |
| (noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: endorsement |
| indorser | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, ratifier, subscriber |
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| (noun) a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | Synonyms: endorser |
| morsel | (noun) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful | Synonyms: bit, bite |
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| (noun) a small quantity of anything | - |
| packhorse | (noun) a workhorse used as a pack animal | - |
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| racehorse | (noun) a horse bred for racing | Synonyms: bangtail, race horse |
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| redhorse | (noun) North American sucker with reddish fins | Synonyms: redhorse sucker |
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| remorse | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: compunction, self-reproach |
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| sawhorse | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawbuck |
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| seahorse | (noun) small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position | Synonyms: sea horse |
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| (noun) either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber | Synonyms: sea horse, walrus |
| studhorse | (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: stud |
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| warhorse | (noun) horse used in war | - |
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| (noun) a work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition | - |
| (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, stager, veteran |
| workhorse | (noun) a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor | - |
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| (noun) machine that performs dependably under heavy use | - |
| worse | (noun) something inferior in quality or condition or effect | - |
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| worsening | (noun) changing something with the result that it becomes worse | - |
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| (noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: declension, decline in quality, deterioration |