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Horse

A large hoofed mammal (Equus caballus) having a short coat, a long mane, and a long tail, domesticated since ancient times and used for riding and for drawing or carrying loads.

Knight

A medieval tenant giving military service as a mounted man-at-arms to a feudal landholder.

Horse

An adult male horse; a stallion.

Knight

A medieval gentleman-soldier, usually high-born, raised by a sovereign to privileged military status after training as a page and squire.

Horse

Any of various equine mammals, such as the wild Asian species Przewalski's horse or certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse.
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Knight

A man holding a nonhereditary title conferred by a sovereign in recognition of personal merit or service to the country.

Horse

A frame or device, usually with four legs, used for supporting or holding.

Knight

A man belonging to an order or brotherhood.

Horse

(Sports) A vaulting horse.

Knight

A defender, champion, or zealous upholder of a cause or principle.
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Horse

(Slang) Heroin.

Knight

The devoted champion of a lady.

Horse

Often horses Horsepower
A muscle car with 400 horses under the hood.

Knight

Abbr. Kt or N(Games) A chess piece, usually in the shape of a horse's head, that can be moved two squares along a rank and one along a file or two squares along a file and one along a rank. The knight is the only piece that can jump other pieces to land on an open square.

Horse

Mounted soldiers; cavalry
A squadron of horse.

Knight

To raise (a person) to knighthood.

Horse

A block of rock interrupting a vein and containing no minerals.

Knight

(historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.

Horse

A large block of displaced rock that is caught along a fault.

Knight

(historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.

Horse

To provide with a horse.

Knight

(by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Horse

To haul or hoist energetically
"Things had changed little since the days of the pyramids, with building materials being horsed into place by muscle power" (Henry Allen).

Knight

A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.

Horse

To be in heat. Used of a mare.

Knight

(modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.

Horse

Of or relating to a horse
A horse blanket.

Knight

(literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.

Horse

Mounted on horses
Horse guards.

Knight

(chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.

Horse

Drawn or operated by a horse.

Knight

A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.

Horse

Larger or cruder than others in the same category
Horse pills.

Knight

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.

Horse

A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.

Knight

(modern) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.

Horse

Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.

Knight

(transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
The king knighted the young squire.

Horse

(zoology) Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.

Knight

To promote (a pawn) to a knight.

Horse

Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again.

Knight

A young servant or follower; a military attendant.

Horse

A component of certain games.

Knight

In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms.

Horse

(slang) A large and sturdy person.
Every linebacker they have is a real horse.

Knight

A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.

Horse

(historical) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Knight

A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.

Horse

Equipment with legs.

Knight

To dub or create (one) a knight; - done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir --.
A soldier, by the honor-giving handOf CŒur-de-Lion knighted in the field.

Horse

In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.

Knight

Originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit

Horse

A frame with legs, used to support something.
A clothes horse; a sawhorse

Knight

A chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

Horse

(nautical) Type of equipment.

Knight

Raise (someone) to knighthood;
The Beatles were knighted

Horse

A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.

Horse

A breastband for a leadsman.

Horse

An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.

Horse

A jackstay.

Horse

(mining) 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.

Horse

(US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E).

Horse

(uncountable) The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.

Horse

(prison slang) A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.

Horse

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Horse

Horseplay; tomfoolery.

Horse

(slang) Heroin drug.

Horse

(intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

Horse

(transitive) To play mischievous pranks on.

Horse

(transitive) To provide with a horse; supply horses for.

Horse

(obsolete) To get on horseback.

Horse

To sit astride of; to bestride.

Horse

(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).

Horse

To take or carry on the back.

Horse

To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.

Horse

(by extension) To flog.

Horse

(transitive) To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.

Horse

(informal) To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.

Horse

To urge at work tyrannically.

Horse

To charge for work before it is finished.

Horse

A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (Equus 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.

Horse

The male of the genus Equus, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.

Horse

Mounted soldiery; cavalry; - used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; - distinguished from foot.
The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot.

Horse

A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.

Horse

A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Horse

Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.

Horse

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.

Horse

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination; - called also trot, pony, Dobbin.

Horse

Heroin.

Horse

Horsepower.

Horse

To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.

Horse

To sit astride of; to bestride.

Horse

To mate with (a mare); - said of the male.

Horse

To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.

Horse

To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

Horse

To get on horseback.

Horse

Solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

Horse

A padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

Horse

Troops trained to fight on horseback;
500 horse led the attack

Horse

A framework for holding wood that is being sawed

Horse

A chessman in the shape of a horse's head; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

Horse

Provide with a horse or horses

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