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horse
horse is a 5-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 23 senses
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- 1noun
A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.
- 2noun
The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.
- 3noun
Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot.
- 4noun
A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.
- 5noun
A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- 6noun
Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.
- 7noun
A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.
- 8noun
See Footrope.
- 9adjective
A breastband for a leadsman.
- 10adjective
An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.
- 11adjective
A jackstay.
- 12transitive verb
To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.
- 13transitive verb
To sit astride of; to bestride.
- 14transitive verb
To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male.
- 15transitive verb
To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.
- 16transitive verb
To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
- 17intransitive verb
To get on horseback.
- 18noun
solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- 19noun
a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
- 20noun
a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
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- 21noun
a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
- 22noun
troops trained to fight on horseback
"500 horse led the attack"
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- 23verb
provide with a horse or horses
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