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 |
(verb) provide with a horse or horses | - |
horseback | (noun) the back of a horse | - |
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(noun) a narrow ridge of hills | Synonyms: hogback |
(adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorse, ahorseback |
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 | - |
(verb) equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or 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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(verb) whip with a whip intended for horses | - |
horsewhipping | (noun) the act of whipping with a horsewhip | - |
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horsewoman | (noun) a woman horseman | - |
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horst | (noun) a ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land | - |
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