Definition of horse

"horse" in the noun sense

1. horse, Equus caballus

solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

2. horse, gymnastic horse

a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

3. cavalry, horse cavalry, horse

troops trained to fight on horseback

"500 horse led the attack"

4. sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck

a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

5. knight, horse

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

"horse" in the verb sense

1. horse

provide with a horse or horses

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Quotations for horse

As wary as a blind horse. [ Proverb ]

A long ox and a short horse. [ Proverb ]

Set the cart before the horse. [ John Heywood ]

Many dogs soon eat up a horse. [ Proverb ]

A short horse is soon curried. [ Proverb ]

One can't shoe a runaway horse. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Spur not a free horse to death. [ Proverb ]

A horse made, and a man to make. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A race-horse is an open sepulchre. [ Proverb ]

The grey mare is the better horse. [ Proverb ]

All lay load on the willing horse. [ Proverb ]

One saddle in enough for one horse. [ Proverb ]

Look not a gift horse in the mouth. [ Proverb ]

Lay the saddle upon the right horse. [ Proverb ]

A jade eats as much as a good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No horse so blind as the blind mare. [ Proverb ]

To win the horse or lose the saddle. [ Proverb ]

The master's eye makes the horse fat. [ Proverb ]

Mettle is dangerous in a blind horse. [ Proverb ]

A wild colt may become a sober horse. [ Proverb ]

A scabbed horse cannot abide the comb. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Better lose the saddle than the horse. [ Italian Proverb ]

A good horse should be seldom spurred. [ Proverb ]

Choose a horse made and a wife to make. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Furniture and mane make the horse sell. [ Proverb ]

To-morrow morning I found a horse shoe. [ Proverb ]

Hang not all your bells upon one horse. [ Proverb ]

To a greedy-eating horse a short halter. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Let the best horse leap the hedge first. [ Proverb ]

A young trooper should have an old horse. [ Proverb ]

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest. [ Proverb ]

It is ill to set spurs to a flying horse. [ Proverb ]

No dearth but begins with a horse-manger. [ Proverb ]

An hungry kite sees a dead horse afar off. [ Proverb ]

Fie, fie! horse-play is not for gentlemen. [ Proverb ]

Man is not the prince of creatures,
But in reason; fail that, he is worse
Than horse or dog, or beast of wilderness. [ Field ]

The common hackney horse is the worst shod. [ Proverb ]

A gilded bit does not make the horse better. [ Proverb ]

I am talking of hay, and you of horse beans. [ Proverb ]

He that gallops his horse on Blackstone edge
May chance to catch a fall. [ Old song ]

They that drive away time spur a free horse. [ Robert Mason ]

O, he's as tedious
As is a tired horse, a railing wife;
Worse than a smoky house; I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me,
In any summer-house in Christendom. [ William Shakespeare ]

An horse-kiss, like to beat one's teeth out. [ Proverb ]

The fault of the horse is put on the saddle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Death rides in triumph, - fell destruction
Lashes his fiery horse, and round about hint
His many thousand ways to let out souls. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

An inch of a horse is worth a span of a colt. [ Proverb ]

The old horse must die in somebody's keeping. [ Proverb ]

It is good to go a foot with a horse in hand. [ Proverb ]

You cannot judge of the horse by the harness. [ Proverb ]

To fall away from a horse load to a cart load. [ Proverb ]

Dogs never go into mourning when a horse dies. [ Proverb ]

It is good walking with a horse in one's hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The horse next the mill carries all the grist. [ Proverb ]

When the horse is starved, you bring him oats. [ Proverb ]

Religion a stalking horse to shoot other fowl. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I will either win the horse or lose the saddle. [ Proverb ]

Like a loader's horse, that lives among thieves. [ Proverb ]

A mare's shoe and a horse's shoe are both alike. [ Proverb ]

Proud is the horse that won't carry its own oats. [ Italian Proverb ]

A grunting horse and a groaning wife seldom fail. [ Proverb ]

Who eats his dinner alone, must saddle his horse. [ Proverb ]

Would you treat your horse with a peck of oysters? [ Proverb ]

You will ride a horse that was foaled of an acorn. [ Proverb ]

It is the horse that stumbles, and not the saddle. [ Proverb ]

It is the bridle and spur that makes a good horse. [ Proverb ]

The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy, we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells. [ Cowper ]

Try to tame a mad horse, but knock him not at head. [ Proverb ]

Touch a galled horse on the back, and he will kick. [ Proverb ]

Who eats his cock alone must saddle his horse alone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

How can the foal amble when the horse and mare trot? [ Proverb ]

A scabbed horse is good enough for a scabbed knight. [ Proverb ]

It is the last feather that breaks the horse's back. [ Proverb ]

Better's the head of an ass than the tail of a horse. [ Proverb ]

The horse that draws his halter is not quite escaped. [ Proverb ]

A colt you may break, but an old horse you never can. [ Proverb ]

A horse is neither better nor worse for his trapping. [ Proverb ]

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. [ Proverb ]

It amounts to no more than the tail of a roasted horse. [ Proverb ]

A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats. [ Proverb ]

Patience is a stout horse, but it will tire at the last. [ Proverb ]

Save something for the man that rides on the white horse. [ Proverb ]

A cough will stick longer by a horse than a peck of oats. [ Proverb ]

Go steal a horse, and then you'll die without being sick. [ Proverb ]

I would have a good horse for myself, not for my brother. [ Proverb ]

It is the abilities of a horse that occasions his slavery. [ Proverb ]

It is a proud horse that will not carry his own provender. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Sure that is a butcher's horse, he carries a calf so well. [ Proverb ]

A man devoid of religion, is like a horse without a bridle. [ From the Latin ]

Sim steals the horse, and carries home the bridle honestly. [ Proverb ]

The horse thinks one thing and he that saddles him another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The master's eye fattens the horse and his foot the ground. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Like a mill-horse, that goes much, but performs no journey. [ Proverb ]

A man may lead his horse to water but cannot make him drink. [ Proverb ]

If an ass goes a travelling, he will not come home an horse. [ Proverb ]

Better is an ass that carries us than a horse that throws us. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

It is a silly horse that can neither whinny nor wag his tail. [ Proverb ]

He has a head as big as a horse, and brains as much as an ass. [ Proverb ]

He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. [ Proverb ]

A tired traveller must be glad of an ass, if he have not a horse. [ Proverb ]

One man may better steal a horse than another look over the hedge. [ Proverb ]

The horse that draws after him his halter is not altogether escaped. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mutton to a sick horse. [ Proverb ]

Take heed of an ox before, of a horse behind, of a monk on all sides. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [ Horace ]

Like a dog in a manger, you'll not eat yourself, nor let the horse eat. [ Proverb ]

He is so suspicious, that he cannot be got at without a stalking horse. [ Proverb ]

He that cannot ride a gentle horse must not attempt to back a mad colt. [ Proverb ]

I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A horse stumbles that hath four legs. (What wonder then, if two stumble.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death. [ Bible ]

Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. [ Thomas Hood ]

A Burston horse, and a Cambridge master of arts will give the way to nobody. [ Proverb ]

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit. [ Lord Eldon ]

It is wit to pick a lock and steal a horse, but it is wisdom to let it alone. [ Proverb ]

Like the dog in the manger, he will neither eat himself nor let the horse eat. [ Proverb ]

You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drink when and what he pleaseth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An ass cover'd with gold is more respected, than a good horse with a pack-saddle. [ Proverb ]

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. [ Goldsmith ]

Guy Patin recommends to a patient to have no doctor but a horse, and no apothecary but an ass! [ Chesterfield ]

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He who cannot govern his passions should kill them, as we kill a horse when we cannot master it. [ Chamfort ]

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle. [ Socrates ]

Contention, like a horse full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, and bears down all before him. [ William Shakespeare ]

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like a hack-horse setting out to gallop. [ Chamfort ]

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I have found the saying of the ancients true, that better is a bright comrade on a weary road than a horse-litter. [ Charles Reade ]

Who lets his wife go to every feast, and his horse drink at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees a camel. [ George Eliot ]

Necessity is a strong rider with sharp spurs, who maketh the sorry jade do that which the strongest horse sometimes will not do. [ Calanus ]

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway. [ Ouida ]

If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Imagination is a mettled horse that will break the rider's neck when a donkey would have carried him to the end of his journey, slow but sure. [ Southey ]

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers. [ Marryat ]

A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

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SHOE
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HERO
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Word Growth involving horse

Shorter words in horse

or ors

Longer words containing horse

carthorse carthorses

charleyhorse charleyhorses

clotheshorse clotheshorses

cockhorse cockhorses

dishorse dishorsed

dishorse dishorses

drafthorse drafthorses

drawhorse drawhorses

drayhorse drayhorses

forehorse forehorses

hobbyhorse hobbyhorses

horseback ahorseback

horseback horsebacked

horseback horsebacker horsebackers

horseback horsebacking

horseback horsebacks

horsecart horsecarts

horsed dishorsed

horsed horsedrawn

horsed unhorsed

horsefish horsefishes

horseflies

horsefly

horsehair horsehairs

horsehide horsehides

horsehoof

horsehooves

horseless

horselike

horseman horsemanship

horsemeat horsemeats

horsemen

horsemongered

horsemongerer horsemongerers

horsemongeries

horsemongering

horsemongers

horsemongery

horseplay horseplayer horseplayers

horseplay horseplays

horsepower horsepowers

horsepox horsepoxes

horserace horseraced

horserace horseracer horseracers

horserace horseraces

horseracing

horseradish horseradishes

horseride horserider horseriders

horseride horserides

horseriding

horses carthorses

horses charleyhorses

horses clotheshorses

horses cockhorses

horses dishorses

horses drafthorses

horses drawhorses

horses drayhorses

horses forehorses

horses hobbyhorses

horses horseshoe horseshoed

horses horseshoe horseshoeing

horses horseshoe horseshoer horseshoers

horses horseshoe horseshoes

horses packhorses

horses quarterhorses

horses racehorses

horses rearhorses

horses sawhorses

horses seahorses

horses stockhorses

horses stonehorses

horses studhorses

horses trojanhorses

horses unhorses

horses warhorses

horses waterhorses

horses wheelhorses

horses workhorses

horsetail horsetails

horsetrading

horseweed horseweeds

horsewhip horsewhipped

horsewhip horsewhipper horsewhippers

horsewhip horsewhipping

horsewhip horsewhips

horsewoman

horsewomen

horsey

packhorse packhorses

quarterhorse quarterhorses

racehorse racehorses

rearhorse rearhorses

sawhorse sawhorses

seahorse seahorses

stockhorse stockhorses

stonehorse stonehorses

studhorse studhorses

trojanhorse trojanhorses

unhorse unhorsed

unhorse unhorses

warhorse warhorses

waterhorse waterhorses

wheelhorse wheelhorses

workhorse workhorses